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Free Julian Assange!: Trump's First Presidential Act Should Reward the Man Who Handed Him the Election

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Assange in his Ecuador Embassy asylum and the man his Wikileaks helped elect
Assange in his Ecuador Embassy asylum and the man his Wikileaks helped elect
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Donald Trump's victory in the presidential race is probably bad news for Edward Snowden if he was hoping for a chance to leave Russia for a warmer climate or a more open political environment. Trump, in his typically over-the-top blustery manner has more than once called the man who exposed the NSA's massive program for monitoring the electronic communications of Americans and even of the leaders of our purported foreign allies, a "spy" who should be "executed."

But his election should be good news for Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks. It was the Wikileaks disclosure of hacked copies of Hilllary Clinton's secret speeches to the country's big banks, and of the emails to and from Clinton campaign chair John Pedestal, describing among other things her campaign's, and the Democratic National Committee's sabotage of Bernie Sanders' insurgent primary campaign, which almost certainly handed the presidency to Trump.

Snowden is fine and safe living in asylum in Russia, but Assange has for four years been trapped in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London, which is really just a large apartment in a ritzy section of the city. There London Metropolitan Police stand guard round the clock ready to grab him if he tries to leave...

For the rest of this article by DAVE LINDORFF in ThisCantBeHappening!, the uncompromised, collectively run, five-time Project Censored Award-winning online alternative news site, please go to: www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/3359

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