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I don't have a firm position on this one that I feel is stable or fully defensible. I suspect this might be a case where a scumbag has to go free because as they say, prosecuting him does seem to set a pretty horrific precedent that you know damn well will be misused against everyone if allowed to be set.
At the same time, fuck this stooge, fuck him with a broomstick. I'm no loyal Democrat but he absolutely, without question, picked a fucking side and did everything he could to serve that side's interests at a crucial moment which did successfully result in years of chaos and irreparable damage to American society. Accelerationists get fucked with your "better to burn it down and start over" year zero Khmer Fucking Rouge Horseshit. I remember the day he pulled that shit and reading his smug statement like he was taking some historic stand for truth or whatever, and I have laughed my ass off when I think about him pacing back and forth in a room for years.
He currently has the life he deserves, whether they ever bother to prosecute, and that doesn't bother me a whit. In no real sense is he a journalist, he's an activist misusing a vulnerable social construct ("the press") for his own agenda. What actually is/was that agenda? I don't have a clue, other than some vague notion of Being A Powerful Man, maybe. He's a stooge for people who use the worst tactics to attain power. I would not piss on him if he was on fire.
I feel out of the loop, anything past Chelsea Manning really. Oh and the sexual assault accusations. What’s the “picking a side and creating chaos” piece?
I assume they’re referring to Wikileaks publishing the DNC emails in 2016.