Thread by @jamesdoleman

Back at the Julian #Assange case in London, (had a few technical issues but all sorted now)
American Lawyer Corey Shenkman is being cross-examined by Claire Dobbin on behalf of the US Government.

The prosecutor is suggesting that the US espionage act has been "refined" through a series of court judgements.
Shenkman is sticking to his argument that it is too broad.
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The barrister and the lawyer are having a very detailed discussion about legal precedent in which they are referring to documents we don't have, so sorry about the lack of tweets..
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Shenkman to Dobbin, "I don't want to tell you how to do your job, but you seem to be wasting your time reading out large chunks of text that are already before the court."
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Dobbin to Shenkman, there have been no prosecutions of serious publications under the espionage act.
Shenkman says "no" and mentions a number of cases.

Shenkman points out that the 1st Amendment makes no distinction between "serious publications," and non mainstream ones.

Dobbin, Wikileaks model was to illegally obtain government information either from officials or hackers.
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Dobbin, "He [Assange] encouraged people to join the CIA to obtain classified information.

Shenkman starts to reply, "I'm glad you brought that up because I'm curious about one part of the indictment."
Judge, "I'm not sure if your curiosity is relevant to these proceedings."

Shenkman, "I think I know what your question is going to be."
Judge, "You should wait for the question and not try and guess what its going to be."
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Cross-examination ends.

10 minute break
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