A Remarkable Silence: Media Blackout After Key Witness Against Assange Admits Lying
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As we have pointed out since Media Lens began in 2001, a fundamental feature of corporate media is propaganda by omission. Over the past week, a stunning example has highlighted this core property once again. A major witness in the US case against Julian Assange has just admitted fabricat­ing key
  • T34 [they/them]
    6•3 years ago

    This part was also interesting:

    But it turned out that the US officers did not have permission from the Icelandic government to operate in the country and Ögmundur Jónasson, then Iceland’s minister of interior, ordered them to leave. Meanwhile, the FBI were allegedly complicit in DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks on the websites of several Iceland government institutions. The FBI had then approached Icelandic authorities, promising to assist them in preventing any future such attacks. In reality, the approach was a ruse to fool Iceland into cooperation in an attempt to entrap Assange.

    So, a possible false-flag DDoS attack by the FBI to worm its way back into Iceland after getting kicked out. It’s horrifying but fascinating to see imperialism at work.