Lawyers for the US Government have claimed during a British High Court hearing that WikiLeaks publisher and founder Julian Assange put the lives of in.
…which included Blackwater guards who killed 17 Iraqi civilians. A “massacre that left one of the most lasting stains of the war on the United States. Among those dead were two boys, 8 and 11.”
I find no satisfaction in saying: I told you so. President Trump pardoned the #Blackwater‘s #WarCriminals,and did NOT pardon a journalist who exposed #WarCrimes and #torture,Julian #Assange, and a whistleblower who exposed State criminality, Edward #Snowden.
This is who they are
Apparently Kodak Black was able to scare up $2 million for a Trump favor and send it to Rudy Giuliani but John Kiriakou was not.
Others pointed out the contrast between Trump’s decision to pardon the Blackwater US military contractors convicted of killing civilians in Iraq and “shady political operatives”, but not Assange and Snowden, who many observers view as icons of press freedom.
Snowden, 37, fled the US after leaking secret National Security Agency files in 2013 and was given asylum in Russia. In November he announced that he would seek Russian citizenship together with his wife for the sake of their family; the couple are expecting a baby.
US authorities have for years wanted Snowden returned to face a criminal trial on espionage charges.