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Pardon
Assange and Snowden
By Jacob G. Hornberger
December 20, 2019 "Information
Clearing House"
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The
Washington Post has just released a
trove of previously secret records
documenting that the U.S. war in Afghanistan
has been based on a multitude of lies and
deception. It is beyond dispute that the
Pentagon and other elements of America’s
deep state were determined to keep those
records secret from the American people.
That’s because it took three years and two
federal lawsuits to force deep-state
officials to finally release the records.
No one
is accusing the Post of publishing
lies. It is undisputed that what the Post
has published is the truth.
Why
then did the deep state oppose release of
the records? Why was the deep state so
insistent that they be kept secret?
The
answer is: Because the deep state knew that
the records recounted the truth, and the
last thing the deep state wanted was for the
American people to know the truth about its
war in Afghanistan — that “Operation
Enduring Freedom” was built on lies, just
like the Vietnam War was.
But
that’s also what Julian Assange and Edward
Snowden did. They didn’t publish any lies
either. They simply published records that
revealed the truth about the deep state.
That’s why the deep state has condemned and
vilified them as bad people, even as
traitors — because they revealed the truth,
just like the Washington Post has.
Arguably the information released by
Assange, through his organization Wikileaks,
and Snowden was much more valuable than the
information released by the Post. The
Post’s information involves lies
within the deep state regarding the progress
that was supposedly being made in the
Afghanistan war. Assange and Snowden
released the truth about some of the actual
dark-side practices of the deep state, such
as the killing of innocent people and
illegal surveillance schemes to spy on the
American people.
Questions naturally arise: Why should anyone
who publishes the truth about the deep state
be condemned or punished? Why should’t the
condemnation and punishment instead be
leveled at the entity that engages in
sordid, dark-side practices and the
intentional utterance of lies and deception,
especially with respect to something as
important as war?
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Today,
Assange is sitting in a brutal prison in
England because the U.S. deep state wants
him sent to the United States to be punished
for revealing the truth about its sordid,
dark-side practices.
Snowden is living his life in exile in
Russia for the same reason. He knows that if
he returns to the United States, the deep
state will go after him with a vengeance for
revealing the truth about its sordid,
dark-side practices.
Neither man deserves condemnation or
punishment, any more than the Washington
Post does. No one who discloses the
truth about the deep state’s sordid,
dark-side practices and its intentional lies
and deception deserves condemnation or
punishment. The ones who deserves
condemnation and punishment are those who
engage in sordid, dark-side practices and
who then cover it up and lie about it.
Assange and Snowden deserve immediate
pardons, which would enable them to be
released from prison and exile and to begin
resuming their normal lives. The fact that
they even have to seek pardons only reflects
what the deep state has done to our values
as Americans. In actuality, it is the deep
state that should be seeking a pardon from
Assange, Snowden, and the American people.
Jacob G. Hornberger is
founder and president of The Future of
Freedom Foundation. He was born and raised
in Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A. in
economics from Virginia Military Institute
and his law degree from the University of
Texas. He was a trial attorney for twelve
years in Texas. He also was an adjunct
professor at the University of Dallas, where
he taught law and economics.
Send him
email.
This article was originally published by "FFF"
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