hornberger shows you how the empire's prosecution of assange isn't really part of who we say we are;
Inadvertently released federal documents reveal that U.S. officials
have apparently secured a secret indictment against Julian Assange, the
head of WikiLeaks who released secret information about the internal
workings of the U.S. national-security establishment. In any nation
whose government is founded on the concept of a national-security state,
that is a cardinal sin, one akin to treason and meriting severe
punishment.
Mind you, Assange isn’t being charged with lying or releasing false
or fraudulent information about the U.S. national-security state.
Everyone concedes that the WikiLeaks information was authentic. His
“crime” was in disclosing to people the wrongdoing of the
national-security establishment. No one is supposed to do that, even if
the information is true and correct.
It’s the same with Edward Snowden, the American contractor with the
CIA and the NSA who is now relegated to living in Russia. If Snowden
returns home, he faces federal criminal prosecution, conviction, and
incarceration for disclosing secrets of the U.S. national-security
establishment. Again, his “crime” is disclosing the truth about the
internal workings of the national-security establishment, not
disseminating false information.
Such secrecy and the severe punishment for people who disclose the
secrets to the public were among the things that came with the
conversion of the federal government to a national-security state.
Recall that when the U.S. government was called into existence by the
Constitution, it was a type of governmental structure known as a
limited-government republic. Under that type of governmental structure,
the federal government’s powers were extremely limited. The only powers
that federal officials could lawfully exercise were those few that were
enumerated in the Constitution itself.
Under the republic form of government, there was no enormous permanent military..............https://www.fff.org/2018/12/17/state-secrets-and-the-national-security-state/
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