Thread by @smc12256

Going through the Assange Indictment and from what I can tell it doesn't charge him for publishing anything. It is all about coercing and helping Manning obtain the information.

https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept/status/1131655736084316165

WL had noted on their site up until Sep 2010, that they solicited Censored, Restricted and Classified information.

A few months Manning's arrest, they removed Classified and noted that they don't solicit information. 🤔

WL published a Most Wanted List on their site starting in 2009.

Assange would speak at hacker conferences and encourage people to seek and find his Most Wanted List.

Manning used that list to pull the information that would later be given to WikiLeaks.

GITMO detainee information. Another check on the WL Most Wanted List

Bulk databases and Military and Intelligence Category...✔️✔️✔️

Iraq/Afghanistan activity reports
GITMO documents
250K State Department Cables

Manning was arrested on 27 May 2010.

The Military and Intelligence Category was no longer on the WL site.

Manning and Assange were in contact during the time Manning was obtaining information. Assange offered to assist in helping to crack a password hash on the US Government's Secret Internet Protocol Network.

If successful, this would allow Manning to log in as a different user.

Assange was fully aware that Manning was obtaining Classified information when offering to assist.

He encouraged Manning to pull the information when Manning listed it.

When Manning said that was everything, Assange encouraged her to keep looking.

Both Manning and Assange were aware that there were names unredacted in the data provided.

Assange was also aware that Manning was a government or military source.

Both believed that the information should be available to the public by any means necessary.

Assange willfully exposed people to harm by not redacting names of sources for people in Iran, Iraq, China, Syria and Afghanistan.

Assange said it was regrettable that people were named and might be in danger.

Al Qaeda and Bin Laden used the WL information.

Count 1: Conspiracy to Obtain, Receive and Disclose National Defense Information

This is the conspiracy between Assange and Manning to obtain and send the information to Assange.

Nothing here about publishing on WikiLeaks

Counts 2: Obtaining National Defense Information - GITMO detainees
Counts 3: Obtaining National Defense Information - State Dept Cables
Counts 4: Obtaining National Defense Information - Iraq Rules of Engagement

This is about aiding, abetting, coercing. Still no publishing.

Count 5: Obtaining National Defense Info - Secret Internet Protocol Network
Count 6: Obtaining National Defense Info - GITMO Detainees
Count 7: Obtaining National Defense Info - US Cables
Count 8: Obtaining National Defense Info - Iraq

Unauthorized receipt - Still no publishing

Counts 9-11: Disclosure of National Defense Information

Count 9 - GITMO Detainees
Count 10 - State Dept Cables
Count 11 - Iraq Rules of Engagement

This is for causing Manning who had authorized access to disclose them to someone unauthorized (Assange)

Again - no publishing

Counts 12-14: Disclosure of National Defense Information
Count 12: GITMO
Count 13: Cables
Count 14: Iraq

This is for causing Manning who had unauthorized access to disclose them to an unauthorized person (Assange)

Still no publishing related charges

Counts 15-17: Disclosure of National Defense Information
Count 15: GITMO
Count 16: Cables
Count 17: Iraq

Here's something on publishing on the internet but I think the charge is for having documents he is not authorized to have and enabling them to be published.

Could be wrong.

I think Count 15 through 17 is charging him as an active participant in the act of obtaining the documents and not as a publisher of the documents.

Count 18: Conspiracy to Commit Computer Intrusion

This is about working with Manning - unauthorized access to obtain the data, working to crack the password, etc.

Nothing about publishing.

It looks like they kept the charges very strict and stayed away from anything to do with publishing the information on the internet.

The closest the got was Counts 15 through 17.