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lookingfortruth

(263 posts)
Wed May 30, 2012, 07:21 PM May 2012

Report Claims Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Secretly Indicted In U.S.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/report_claims_wikileaks_founder_julian_assange_secretly_indicted_in_us.php#more

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was secretly indicted by federal prosecutors in the U.S., according to an email from private intelligence company Stratfor obtained by the hacking group Anonymous and published by Wikileaks this week.

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Has anyone seen this article? I came across it while looking for the various articles on the alleged Rape charge that Sweden leveled on this guy so they could get him on Swedish soil to hand him over to the U.S. (By the way half of the articles that all the information about how this all unfolded and how the one person accusing assange of Rape is connected to the U.S. in some way I can't find. I can't find relaible sources that depended on. I see a few blogs here and there but nothing with the proof like Think Progress articles and such sites.)

Anyways this was written Feb 2012.
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Report Claims Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Secretly Indicted In U.S. (Original Post) lookingfortruth May 2012 OP
And Karl Rove will be indicted in 24 business hours. TheWraith May 2012 #1
Point of information. Assange has never been charged in Sweden or anywhere else. Luminous Animal May 2012 #2
Not much corroboration for that, it seems. MineralMan May 2012 #3
True, but then what would you expect if it was "secret". A marching band? nt Bonobo May 2012 #4
I expect nothing. I read things and make judgments about their credibility. MineralMan May 2012 #5
And you can always self delete this post if it turns out to be true whatchamacallit May 2012 #6
Yes, I can. However, where's the additional information about this since February? MineralMan May 2012 #7
Fair enough whatchamacallit May 2012 #8
Just so. MineralMan May 2012 #9

TheWraith

(24,331 posts)
1. And Karl Rove will be indicted in 24 business hours.
Wed May 30, 2012, 07:38 PM
May 2012

Third-hand information filtered through two totally unreliable sources--STRATFOR and Anonymous--and if we needed any more evidence it was bullshit, it's four months later and nothing ever came of it.

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
3. Not much corroboration for that, it seems.
Wed May 30, 2012, 08:28 PM
May 2012

Email from a "private intelligence company." Cool. I think I'll become one of those and issue my own "reports."

This information is useless without some sort of corroboration.

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
5. I expect nothing. I read things and make judgments about their credibility.
Wed May 30, 2012, 08:33 PM
May 2012

This story has a credibility of maybe 5%, at best. I pay little attention to unattributed writing like this. What's in that Stratfor "report?" The story at the link has zero verifiable information. It's someone tossing shit into the air to see if any of it sticks. I call bullshit on this, especially given its age and lack of additional information since that time.

Lots of people write lots of shit. Time will tell.

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
7. Yes, I can. However, where's the additional information about this since February?
Wed May 30, 2012, 08:39 PM
May 2012

Do you believe everything you read on the Internet? I sure don't. Show me some corroborating information. Then, maybe, I'll listen.

I doubt I'll be self-deleting this post.

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