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Canada's state broadcaster CBC peddles lies and slanders about jailed journalist Julian Assange

Palmer, J. D.
http://www.thecanadafiles.com/articles/canadas-state-broadcaster-cbc-peddles-lies-and-slanders-about-jailed-journalist-julian-assange

Publisher:  The Canada Files
Date Written:  05/02/2023
Year Published:  2023  
Resource Type:  Article

Following the calamitous ruling on December 10, 2021 by a British court to extradite Julian Assange to face espionage charges in the US, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) aired two reports, densely packed with hideous deceptions that lend support to Washington's efforts to persecute and silence the award-winning journalist.

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Having laid bare the US empire as a never-ceasing conveyor belt of war crimes, Assange exposed Washington's lies of "nation building" in Afghanistan and Iraq as a vast "money laundering" operation.

And yet, as his legal case progressed, it was clear that the Wikileaks founder's heroism was resulting in his slow murder via multi-state judicial corruption. In response to this remarkable case, in one of many examples of journalistic malfeasance, Chris Brown, in his report for the CBC's flagship news program "The National," falsely asserts that Assange "leaked" the cables that contained the infamous Collateral Murder video. Brown, a long-time CBC correspondent, can presumably distinguish between publishing and leaking. Determined to confuse the viewer, Brown fails to mention the role of whistleblower Chelsea Manning (Assange's source) and through conflation taints the journalistic credentials of the man who exposed torture at Guantanamo.

Brown knows quite well that publishing leaks is the backbone of national security journalism with the quotidian apparatus of "legacy" newspapers like the New York Times, providing potential whistleblowers with technical instructions on their websites for evading detection. That's why, as CBC fails to inform the viewer, the Obama administration chose not to prosecute Assange (a decision later reversed by Trump's Department of Justice or DOJ). Due to what it deemed the "New York Times problem," such a precedent, Obama's DOJ concluded, could be used against fellow elites.

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