Thread by @jamesdoleman

Mark Summers QC for the defence now rises to make a motion on extradition law.
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Says he will be dealing with three specific pieces of evidence.
1.The allegation that #Assange helped Chelsea Manning crack a password.
2. The allegation of "theft," against him
3. The allegation he put people at risk.

All "Utter rubbish," he adds

"Lies, lies and more lies," Summers says of the prosecution case.
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Summers now asks the court to consider the evidence given at Chelsea Manning's court martial.
Notes Manning had lawful access to various secure databases, asks court to look at the "Iceland Cable."
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Notes cables had a clear public interest, including US spying on UN diplomats, extra-judicial killings etc, says theior release has "changed the world."
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Says the evidence shows Manning had access to diplomatic cables long before the alleged password hack the US side says was assisted by #Assange

Now moves onto the second allegation against #Assage, the he "solicited," information from Chelsea Manning,
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Summers says Wikileaks is a collaborative project like Wikipedia, "anyone can edit it, anyone can be an author."
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Summers says Wikileaks did have a "most wanted" list of information it asked people to submit.
Notes there is no mention of US diplomatic cables anywhere on it.
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The QC says the idea Chelsea Manning uploaded the cables after seeing a reuqest on the "most wanted list," is "absolute fantasy."
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Summers moves on to the prosecution charge that Assange "knowingly put lives at risk."

Protestors outside getting louder, judge asks if the defence wishes to pause until it calms down., he says no

Summers continues, notes that at her court martial Chelsea Manning testified these were non sensitive cables as they were available to thousands of people and not marked as classified.
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Notes that #Assange partnered with 5 mainstream media organisations to read and, if necessary, redact the cables before release.

Says the US government, via the State Departments was "feeding suggested redactions," to Wikileaks' media partners.
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A witness from Der Speigel will say they held a conference call with the State Department to discuss redactions,
"The US government was involved," Summers says,
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Summers, "Wikileaks had a process to identify and redact the names of anyone ar risk. A very different situation from what you heard [from the prosecution] yesterday.
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Summers says this continued for 9 months, until the unredacted release.
Says that one of the media partners published a book that gave away the password to the archive, which led to other sites publishing the unredacted cables.
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Court rises for its midmorning break.

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(The book just referenced was "Wikileaks," by the Guardian's Luke Harding.)
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