Patrick Eller, a longtime digital forensics investigator for the US army, demolishes US claims that Assange helped Chelsea Manning 'hack' military documents, in the latest report of the extradition hearings from ex-ambassador Craig Murray craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/…
Eller testifies that there is no forensic evidence that Manning's online interlocutor, ‘Nathaniel Frank’, was Assange; and anyway Manning had not needed help from ‘Frank’ either to download the classified documents or to cover her tracks
Further, Eller tells the Assange gearing, there was no way in 2010 to crack the ‘hash key’ Manning sought help cracking.
To top it all, these points were known long ago to US prosecutors because they had come to light earlier in Manning's own trial
Jakob Augstein, Der Freitag’s editor, smashed another pillar of the US claims. He confirmed that Assange was not the first to publish the leak of unredacted cables. Assange had urged Augstein not to publish expressly out of concern for the threat to US informants
Augstein, Freitag's editor, also indicated that the leak of unredacted material he published was linked to the defection from Wikileaks of Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who set up a rival to Wikileaks and is always portrayed in the media as the ‘good guy’ to Assange's 'bad guy'
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