At the White House “Correspondents” dinner, i.e. Government Groupies and Propagandists Dinner, Biden told a few jokes some of which were actually slightly funny. He didn’t sound his usual confused, comatose and disoriented self.
But one thing Biden said was extremely hypocritical. He said that “journalism is not a crime.”!! Can you believe this? And at the same time his administration is chasing after Julian Assange of WikiLeaks, the most prominent journalist of our time, attempting to either throw Assange in prison or kill him for the crime of … journalism!
Assange and WikiLeaks in 2010 published the Iraq War Logs and the Afghanistan War logs, the diplomatic cables including those of then-Sec. of State Hillary Rotten Clinton, and the notorious Collateral Murder video of U.S. military shooting at unarmed innocent civilians in Iraq. The War Logs revealed more war crimes of the U.S. regime who started the wars against Iraq and Afghanistan, neither of which was involved in 9/11 or was of any threat to Americans.
And while U.S. government wants to prosecute Assange for his acts of journalism, they do not seem to want to go after the New York Times or other publications who published the same material released by WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks also published in 2016 Democrat DNC emails that showed collusions and corruption between Democrat politicians including Clinton and “journalists” i.e. government flunkies and hangers-on like New York Slimes reporters Maggie Haberman and Mark Leibovich.
Some people don’t like my referring to Hillary Clinton as Hillary Rotten Clinton, but so be it. And some people don’t like my referring to the New York Times as New York Slimes. But the “Paper of Record” really is slimy in that it lies and makes stuff up about conservatives and about Trump, and makes stuff up about the “1619 Project,” promotes wars with Iraq and warmongers against Russia, and its “reporters” really do collude with bureaucrats in Washington.
But the fact that Assange’s WikiLeaks also published those DNC emails in 2016 has caused the partisan-motivated Feds to want to get that Assange even more.
So Biden didn’t mention Julian Assange when saying “Journalism is not a crime.”
Additionally to the non-mentioning of Assange, Biden and his Obama-Biden regime 2009-2017 went after and prosecuted Bradley Manning (now known as Chelsea Manning) for his leaking to WikiLeaks the aforementioned material in 2010, none of which threatened or harmed any U.S. military or other personnel overseas.
Obama-Biden did this against Manning in the same way that Richard Nixon tried to prosecute Daniel Ellsberg for the Pentagon Papers leaks in 1971. Exposing U.S. government war crimes, lies and corruption is a crime to our overlords like Biden.
The one who turned Manning in to the Feds was now-deceased Adrian Lamo who had some sort of relationship with Kevin Poulson of Wired. Wired published only a partial version of the chat logs between Manning and Lamo, omitting certain parts in order to present a false narrative of Manning’s motive in his leaking the material to WikiLeaks.
To get a good idea of the early years of the U.S. gubmint going after leakers and using “journalists” as informants, see Glenn Greenwald on the initial aspects of the relationship between Manning, Lamo and Wired, Greenwald’s take on the “journalistic disgrace at Wired,” and his follow-up regarding Wired finally publishing the full Manning-Lamo chat logs.
What was then revealed was that Lamo lied to Manning, promising journalist-source protections, in effect acting as a de facto government agent to entrap Manning into eventual arrest and detention. Manning stated that he believed all the leaked information was in the public domain and that the American people had a right to know the truth.
Obama-Biden also went after journalists including James Risen then of the NYT, and James Rosen then of Fox News, as well as AP journalists. Risen had revealed that the Bush administration (and Obama-Biden, as revealed later by Edward Snowden) was spying on Americans. So Obama-Biden wanted to prosecute Risen for telling the truth about the “national security” apparatchiks, not prosecute “national security” traitors for their illegal intrusions into the lives of Americans.
By the way, after being sentenced to prison for truth-telling by the Obama-Biden administration’s military flunkies, Manning subsequently wrote an op-ed for NYT telling how much control the U.S. military had over embedded members of the Press in Iraq. “Journalists” whose “journalism” flattered military were granted access, but those who wrote stories that embarrassed the military were terminated and blacklisted.
And we now know about the current Biden administration’s collusions with Big Tech, Facebook and Twitter and others, as we have seen recently from Elon Musk and Twitter Files, in Government/Big Tech censoring any information on especially Covid and Ukraine that refuted or contradicted the official government narrative (i.e. censoring truth-telling that contradicted the lies and misinformation repeated by Biden’s propagandists in the corporate media).
To Biden and his fellow government fascists, real journalism is a crime, exposing government criminality and corruption is a crime, but propagandists who prop up government fascists are A-OK. That’s “journalism” to Biden.