Security News > 2020 > January > Brazil Charges Glenn Greenwald with Cybercrimes

Is the indictment of April 11 that the extradition cased was based on? If the initial indictment is anything like the DoJ press release of April 11.

From the DoJ statement, the purported crimes appear to be: "Hacking" in headline but described as "Cracking" in text, and also 'conspiracy' in both the headline and the text.

Such a quip obviously isn't what one would understand as 'actively encouraging' or is hardly something 'encouraging', if at all, despite DoJ having claimed it to mean "Actively encouraging Manning" something might otherwise amount to a conspiracy to commit a crime as such, or anything said might as well be construed as encouraging and "a conspiracy" by mere association.

Mark my words: If DoJ in this statement conclude that JA was actively encouraging Manning, they basically lie, in liue of the statement at the end, where: "Every defendant is presumed to be innocent until and unless proven guilty in court." Thus, either DoJ would lie in making the argument, or, they lie about people being innocent until proven guilty in court.

One might wonder if Assange already has been found guilty in a US court in secret, but that also, would go againt DoJ statement about innocence in the sense of that particular statement being particularily irrelevant, becuase Assange would then no longer be a "Defendant", just somebody to be extradition on 100% US terms.

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