Belmarsh Prison

[Louis the fly]

Belmarsh is the UK's highest security prison it houses terrorists, murderers and other long sentence prisoners.
In a solitary confinement cell is Julian Assange, he is allowed out for fifteen minutes a day and has been inside for nineteen months. His only crime in the UK is breaking his bail conditions when he took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy. This was to try to prevent his extradition to the US who have charged him with revealing state secrets. These secrets include US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Baghdad a US helicopter with a team of Blackwater private security personnel opened fire on civilians including two journalists killing twelve. Donald Trump, in a list of pardons before he leaves office has pardoned the four Blackwater contractors who carried out the massacre.
Julian Assange is awaiting a UK court decision on whether his extradition to the US can go ahead, if it does he will probably spend the rest of his life in a US supermax prison. Although born in Townsville and an Australian citizen his government is ready and willing to throw him to the wolves. The price for bring a whistleblower.

[Tony Taylor]

Belmarsh is the UK's highest security prison it houses terrorists, murderers and other long sentence prisoners.
. Although born in Townsville and an Australian citizen his government is ready and willing to throw him to the wolves. The price for bring a whistle blower.

and the US government will not give up a dangerous driver who killed someone and hid behind diplomatic immunity which is questionable also

[Red Lead Ted]

Since the Obama administration, the DOJ has sought to prosecute whistleblowers under the Espionage Act for giving classified information to the press about some of the most egregious abuses of law and public trust in history, but has ultimately refrained from prosecuting journalists who publish that information. That the DOJ is now using the Espionage Act to prosecute a publisher of information is a new level of assault on press freedom and the public’s right to know about serious government abuses.

Any time there is a prosecution of either a journalist or a whistleblower, there needs to be heightened skepticism because it is so anathema to the public interest to curtail freedom of speech, especially speech that represents one of the few means of exposing what the government is doing behind closed doors. This is even more true in the national security context, where every expert agrees there is massive over-classification and virtually no successful effort to curtail the problem. It is extremely easy to classify information and documents and almost impossible to declassify them. Terry.