https://consortiumnews.com/2019/04/08/on-the-pavement-with-wikileaks/

I have been down in London this last three days outside and around the Ecuadorean Embassy, following WikiLeaks’ announcement that their sources indicate Julian might be expelled within hours or days.

When Julian does leave the Embassy, whatever the circumstances in which he does that, it will be for a day or two the largest media story in the world and undoubtedly will lead all the news bulletins across every major country. The odds are that he will be leaving and facing a fight against extradition to the United States, on charges arising from the Chelsea Manning releases which revealed a huge amount about U.S. war crimes and other illegal acts.

It will be very important to try to focus a hostile media on why it is Julian is actually wanted for extradition. Not for the non-existent collusion with Russia to assist Trump, which is an entirely fake narrative…This is not going to be an easy task because pretty well all of the Western media is going to want to focus on these false anti-Assange narratives, and they will be determined to give as little attention as possible to the fact he is a publisher facing trial for publishing leaked state documents which revealed state wrongdoing.

[What a shit show this is going to be]

[There is a line that can be drawn between Espionage and being a Whistleblower if you have all the facts. I'm not sure if we know for sure enough about what went on behind the scenes with the Snowden and Manning cases to draw that line. And there's also Seth Rich's case (which is even murkier). Perhaps we are heading to a place where the full stories will be known. Dark to light? Considering the nature of state secrets, not sure how we could ever get there. At any rate, all roads go through Wikileaks and JA.]

She was already sentenced to 35 years in a military prison for that. (She served seven years before President Barack Obama commuted her sentence.) This time, she’s been thrown behind bars for an indeterminate period of incarceration because she refused to testify before the Wikileaks grand jury.

The media reported that the Justice Department’s prosecutors wanted her to testify about her relationship with Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange and how she was able to pass classified documents to him in 2011.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/chelsea-mannings-dont-tread-on-me-moment/

John Kiriakou is a former CIA analyst and case officer and senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He served two years in prison (2013-15) for blowing the whistle on the CIA’s torture program.