
WAR CRIMINALS AND MURDERERS REJOICE
by Peter Oborne
Murderers, torturers and war criminals will be toasting the British home secretary, Priti Patel, tonight.Her decision to approve the extraditionof Julian Assange turns investigative journalism into a criminal act, and licenses the United States to mercilessly hunt down offenders wherever they can be found, bring them to justice and punish them with maximum severity.
Julian Assange’s supposed crime was to expose atrocities committed by the US and its allies, primarily in Afghanistan and Iraq, during the war on terror. He shone a light on the systematic abuse dealt out to prisoners in Guantánamo Bay. He revealed the fact that more than150 entirely innocent inmateswere held for years without even being charged.
He published a video of helicopter gunmen laughing as they casually…
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