Our website are 2 dot com thanks for tuning in this hour. Hello and welcome to cross talk were all things were considered im Peter Lavelle in london Julian Assange and youre standing trial on whether he will be extradited to the u. S. To face espionage charges the stakes could not be higher songes liberty even life is on the line freedom of speech is also on trial though you would know that from the Mainstream Media. Cross talking Julian Assange im joined by my guest in london joe lauria hes the editor in chief of Consortium News dot com we also have taylor she is an independent journalist and cofounder of action for us and were joined by alexander make your us he is a writer on Legal Affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it lets go to the the legal part of this story here well go to alexander me curious alex i mean the Mainstream Media when it does report the tria
Gentlemen. Pleased on behalf of the Penn State Dickinson School of law, penn state institute for constitutional sciences, the center for democracy and technology, and the center for justice to welcome you to what i consider to be a very timely, and honestly a very, very important form and symposium. At the outset, i want to thank all of the participants regarding and incredible array of speakers dissipating in the forum. I want to thank the guests who have taken the time to join us this morning, and i also want to reach out and say thank you to cspan for covering something that all of us, i think regardless of republican, democrat, or independent, think is quickly important. It is undisputed that there are people who have been hacking into our elections for a long, long time. Indisputable. S we can start with 2016, and i think we can look back before that, we might have seen there were people playing around in that arena, even before that time, so we decided to get these organizations,
A fair trial go ahead our or what i have to say there are certain aspects of the trial which to cause me a great deal of unease are i dont want to go into the. Details too far but firstly are i have to have genuine concerns about the physical layout of the courtroom the fact that he is kept kept behind a glass barrier hes been complaining that this is limited hes contacts with his lawyers there is incidentally case law which says the physical layout of the court room can have bearing on whether a trial is fair or not so for our all or his protests about that have been disregarded but beyond this i am becoming worried by the trend of some of the legal arguments in the very interesting really the process. Seems to have accepted i should say the crown seems have accepted the the things that he has been charged with are political offenses but the argument now seems to be that that isnt relevant at all in extraditing him because the u. K. Extradition act of 2003 doesnt say that people cant
The center for democracy, technology and the center for justice to welcome you to what i consider to be a very timely, obviously a very, very important forming symposium. At the outset i want to thank all the participants. An incredible array of speakers, guests who have taken the time to address this subject and cspan, regardless of republican, democrat or independent think is critically important. Its undisputed that there are people that have been hacking into our elections for a long, long time. The evidence is indisputable. We can start with 2016, but i think if we look back before that we might have seen there are people playing around in that arena even before that time. We decided to get together to pull together a symposium to deal with hacking in u. S. Elections and how to make the 2020 election more secure. So were grateful that they could join us this morning. Some of you in the audience probably remember, but i did happen to talk to some of my colleagues from Penn State Di
In london Julian Assange standing trial on whether he will be extradited to the u. S. To face espionage charges the stakes could not be higher songes liberty even life is on the line freedom of speech is also on trial though you would know that from the Mainstream Media. Talking Julian Assange im joined by my guest in london joe lauria hes the editor in chief of Consortium News dot com we also have taylor she is an independent journalist and cofounder of action for us and were joined by alexander make your us he is a writer and Legal Affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it lets go to the the legal part of this story here well go to alexander me curious alex i mean the Mainstream Media when it does report the trial it seems to me theres an enormous amount of omission being played out here. In europe you have a legal mind you have a legal legal experience is he gett