'BradCast' 4/11/2019 (Making sense of the Assange indictment)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 A day of many indictments. Stormy Daniels' attorney Michael Avenatti was indicted on charges of bank fraud, tax fraud, and allegedly stealing from clients. Former Obama White House Counsel Greg Craig was charged with lying to federal agents regarding his lobbying work for Ukraine, arising from the Robert Mueller Special Counsel probe (Trump Campaign chair Paul Manafort was also found guilty on similar charges). WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in the U.K. after being evicted from the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he's claimed asylum for seven years. Assange faces an extradition request from the U.S. on a (so far) one-count indictment on charges of "conspiracy to commit computer intrusion," for allegedly attempting to help then-U.S. Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning hack a password on a classified Defense Department computer system.\xa0 Press freedom advocates warn the charges against Assange could be expanded to threaten the Constitutional rights of journalists. We separate the facts from the spin on what we know, and don't, about the indictment, and what Assange and WikiLeaks have actually done, and what it all may -- or may not -- mean for press freedom as the case moves forward.\xa0 Also today:\xa0 Good news regarding the death penalty in New Hampshire. Trump Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin's violates federal law in refusing to give Trump's tax returns to Congress. Trump Attorney General William Barr obnoxiously suggested, without evidence,\xa0 that the Obama Administration "spied" on the Trump Campaign in 2016. Oil industry lobbyist David Bernhardt confirmed as Trump's new Interior Secretary by the US Senate, despite new disturbing details on his perfidy and corruption. Plus Desi Doyen has the latest 'Green News Report' on Trump's newly signed Executive Orders strip states' rights over fossil fuel infrastructure, troubling new findings on accelerating climate change, and much more...