{"id":8851,"date":"2010-12-20T10:12:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T18:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=8851"},"modified":"2010-12-21T12:27:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T20:27:22","slug":"no-assange-still-very-much-hoist-by-the-states-petard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/20\/no-assange-still-very-much-hoist-by-the-states-petard\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Assange Still Very Much Hoist by the State&#8217;s Petard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few bits on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2010\/dec\/17\/julian-assange-sweden\">Assange &#8220;smear&#8221; leak<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>1) Getting into even more (quite boring) alleged details of the incidents does not negate the accepted fact that these women continued to gushingly pal around with Assange <em>quite a bit after<\/em> the &#8220;rapes.&#8221; As pointed out by Assange, and as not challenged by &#8220;Miss A,&#8221; the WikiLeaks founder continued to sleep in her bed for another week. Stockholm syndrome? (lol)<\/p>\n<p>2) It&#8217;s clear this was engineered by the United States as no Swede would think such intimate details as scandalous and fatally damaging as dowdy Americans. &#8220;We&#8217;ll embarrass him good,&#8221; some Mormon covert-ops button-up no doubt chuckled as he unleashed this ho-hum operation. &#8220;Look, it mentions his penis!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>3) And most importantly to demolish, Assange is not now, in any way, hoist by his own petard, thank you very much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/editorials\/julian-assanges-petard\/87174\/\">apparently-recently-re-resurrected neoconservative <em>New York Sun<\/em><\/a>. WikiLeaks exists to expose the misdeeds of those in power, the nearly invincible elites. Court charges are kept secret so that accused and assumed innocent individuals &#8212; almost the embodiment of those with the least power &#8211; get a fair hearing in a system run by <em>the very power elites targeted by WikiLeaks<\/em>. I have a feeling Glenn Greenwald will go into detail on this very subject in the coming week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few bits on the Assange &#8220;smear&#8221; leak: 1) Getting into even more (quite boring) alleged details of the incidents does not negate the accepted fact that these women continued to gushingly pal around with Assange quite a bit after the &#8220;rapes.&#8221; As pointed out by Assange, and as not challenged by &#8220;Miss A,&#8221; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[715],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-wikileaks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8858,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8851\/revisions\/8858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8851"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}