{"id":186604,"date":"2019-04-12T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=186604"},"modified":"2019-04-14T07:39:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T07:39:38","slug":"u-s-lawmakers-welcome-news-of-julian-assanges-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=186604","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Lawmakers welcome news of Julian Assange&#8217;s arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Daniel Jativa \u2013 Washington Examiner April 11, 2019<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Lawmakers welcomed the news of WikiLeaks founder <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-arrested-at-ecuadorian-embassy-in-london\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Julian Assange&#8217;s arrest in London Thursday<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who has repeatedly denounced those who support Assange as enemies of the U.S., cheered Assange&#8217;s arrest in a statement via Twitter, saying &#8220;he has never&#8221; considered the whistleblower a hero.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;I\u2019m glad to see the wheels of justice are finally turning when it comes to Julian Assange. In my book, he has NEVER been a hero. His actions &#8211; releasing classified information &#8211; put our troops at risk and jeopardized the lives of those who helped us in Iraq and Afghanistan,&#8221; he tweeted<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m glad to see the wheels of justice are finally turning when it comes to Julian Assange.  <\/p>\n<p>In my book, he has NEVER been a hero.<\/p>\n<p>His actions &#8211; releasing classified information &#8211; put our troops at risk and jeopardized the lives of those who helped us in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LindseyGrahamSC\/status\/1116348952247459847?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., urged authorities to bring Assange to justice immediately, approving of the charges that were unsealed by the Department of Justice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cUnder the guise of transparency, Julian Assange and Wikileaks have effectively acted as an arm of the Russian intelligence services for years. Mr. Assange engaged in a conspiracy to steal classified information, putting millions of lives at risk all over the world. Hopefully, he will now face justice,&#8221; Burr said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Vice-Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Mark Warner, Va., the highest-ranking Democrat on the committee, commended the arrest, saying that Assange deliberately worked with the Russians to undermine the U.S. and called for his extradition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Whatever Julian Assange&#8217;s intentions were for WikiLeaks, what he\u2019s become is a direct participant in Russian efforts to weaken the West and undermine American security. I hope British courts will quickly transfer him to U.S. custody so he can finally get the justice he deserves,&#8221; Warner said.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Whatever Julian Assange&#39;s intentions were for WikiLeaks, what he\u2019s become is a direct participant in Russian efforts to weaken the West and undermine American security. I hope British courts will quickly transfer him to U.S. custody so he can finally get the justice he deserves.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkWarner\/status\/1116352046003781635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., who faces a tough 2020 reelection race, also applauded the arrest in a statement via Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;I commend British police for the arrest of Julian Assange after nearly 7 yrs in self-imposed exile inside the Ecuadorian Embassy. I call for the immediate extradition of Assange to the US where he&#8217;ll answer for aiding &amp; abetting a foreign power to undermine US democracy &amp; laws,&#8221; he tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I commend British police for the arrest of Julian Assange after nearly 7 yrs in self-imposed exile inside the Ecuadorian Embassy. I call for the immediate extradition of Assange to the US where he&#39;ll answer for aiding &amp; abetting a foreign power to undermine US democracy &amp; laws.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cory Gardner (@SenCoryGardner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenCoryGardner\/status\/1116347559444975618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">First-term Rep. Florida Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, who was born in Ecuador and represents a heavy Ecuadorian community in South Florida, applauded the Ecuadorian government&#8217;s decision to end its protection of Assange in its London embassy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Every chance I\u2019ve had to speak with Ecuador\u2019s government, I pushed them to stop protecting Assange, and I\u2019m glad they\u2019ve finally done so,&#8221; Mucarsel-Powell tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Every chance I\u2019ve had to speak with Ecuador\u2019s government, I pushed them to stop protecting Assange, and I\u2019m glad they\u2019ve finally done so. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1WGfI2R93D\">https:\/\/t.co\/1WGfI2R93D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (@RepDMP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepDMP\/status\/1116348479989854213?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wikileaks-founder-dnc-emails-show-collusion-by-clinton-wasserman-schultz\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\">Assange became a player in the 2016 presidential race<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> when WikiLeaks released thousands of emails that had been stolen from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign chairman, John Podesta. American intelligence officials concluded the hacking was orchestrated by the Russian government. The whistleblower <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/roger-stone-was-told-julian-assange-has-kryptonite-on-hillary-before-wikileaks-published-emails\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>made clear he was no fan of Clinton<\/strong><\/span><\/a> but has insisted that he did not get the emails from Russia. Democrats, meanwhile, have consistently sought to link Assange and WikiLeaks to the 2016 campaign of President Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/lawmakers-welcome-news-of-julian-assanges-arrest\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost without exception U.S. lawmakers have welcomed Assange\u2019s arrest and urged his extradition to the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-controlling-the-news-andor-the-free-exchange-of-ideas-and-information","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186606,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186604\/revisions\/186606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}