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Sam Bankman-Fried admits robbing ~5 million people, and he's getting puff pieces in the @nytimes.
Daniel Hale is suffering in a dungeon for the "crime" of revealing 9 out of 10 people we kill with drones are mere bystanders.
Justice really is blind.
standwithdanielhale.org
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Worth noting that the President seems to have absconded with more classified documents than many whistleblowers. For comparison, Reality Winner was sentenced to 5 YEARS for just one document.
Meanwhile Biden, Trump, Clinton, Petraeus... these guys have dozens, hundreds. No jail.
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One, I didn't "steal" anything. I created a copy.
Two, that "thing" was **evidence of crimes** (our courts agreed: see link).
Three, exposing a crime should not be a crime, regardless of whether those crimes were committed by a Mafia or a State.
theguardian.com/us-news/2020/s… twitter.com/Roomtofit/stat…
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Daniel Hale, one of the great American Whistleblowers, was just moments ago sentenced to four years in prison. His crime was telling this truth: 90% of those killed by US drones are bystanders, not the intended targets.
He should have been given a medal. twitter.com/FreedomofPress…
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This is the end of the case against Julian Assange. stundin.is/grein/13627/ke…
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It's *snow secret* you tortured Gul Rahman for weeks at a black site, then chained him naked to a concrete floor until he died in the near-winter cold.
It's *snow secret* that today's CIA Director, Gina Haspel, was then the head of a related torture site.
vox.com/2014/12/9/7360… twitter.com/CIA/status/120…
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I have seen more calls for pardon this year than in all others combined. No other issue in our time unites left, right, and center like the struggle to end governments' abuse of mass surveillance and secrecy, and that would not be true without you -- and your advocacy. Thank you.
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turns out kanye is not gonna be president
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No matter how well-intentioned, @Apple is rolling out mass surveillance to the entire world with this. Make no mistake: if they can scan for kiddie porn today, they can scan for anything tomorrow.
They turned a trillion dollars of devices into iNarcs—*without asking.* twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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The @AP's statement directly challenges the Israeli military's claimed justification for blowing up their building, stating that in 15 years, the AP has never seen any indication Hamas was present or active there—and they investigated:
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Governments claiming the authority to *freeze people's bank accounts* because they want to crush a protest movement is tyrannical and obscene. If you would oppose China or Russia doing it, you must oppose Canada doing it.
Very glad @cancivlib exists.
ccla.org/press-release/…
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There is something miserable in the figure who enjoyed in their youth the freedom of speech, but from the comfort of age seeks to deny it to others; some deformity of the soul.
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Huge:
CIA mass ("bulk") surveillance has been carried out “entirely outside the statutory framework, and without any judicial, congressional or even executive branch oversight. The nature and full extent was withheld even from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence." twitter.com/ACLU/status/14…
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Gold is just bitcoin that can't be sent over the internet.
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Vote na esperança. Vote na história. Vote no futuro. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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Julian Assange is one of the longest-serving political prisoners in the western world. Every level of the case against him has been shot through with corruption and the abuse of process.
People justify it by reciting memes to demonstrate their allegiance.
This is dystopia. twitter.com/kgosztola/stat…
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Politics now ask you to define yourself by who you hate, rather than what you love.
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From the reporter who won the Pulitzer for uncovering the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, broke stories on Watergate and Abu Ghraib:
seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-…
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Why is the CIA so obsessed with silencing Julian Assange? 🤔
twitter.com/wikileaks/stat…
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You are about to witness an enormous political debate in which the spy agencies and their apologists on TV tell you this is normal and OK and the CIA doesn't know how many Americans are in the database or even how they got there anyway.
But it is not ok.
washingtonpost.com/politics/senat…
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Hard to believe, but it looks real. Every serious press freedom group in the world has protested this. It is an appalling symbol of how far the British and American governments' commitment to human rights has declined.
How can we condemn authoritarian abuses abroad like this? twitter.com/wikileaks/stat…
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