1. Day 3 Julian #Assange #extradition hearing.Important note before we start:though the whole case is based on alleged harm by #WikiLeaks’ publications
1. In the last 10 YEARS US has never found a case of death/injury
2. The indictment does NOT identify docs potentially harmful

2. prof Paul Rogers, called to testify by the JA’s defence, ready to testify. He’s emeritus prof of Peace Studies at Bradford University and has published extensively on #Afghanistan and #Iraq

3. Paul Rogers: #WikiLeaks confirmed the degree of detail Afghanistan was NOT under control as the Bush Admin had told to the public

4. prof Rogers: one of the most significant part of #WikiLeaks publication on #Iraq was documenting civil victims, 15,000 never accounted before

5. Prof Rogers: Julian #Assange’ libertarian view: transparency and accountability are at the core of his beliefs for protecting human rights

6. Prof Rogers: Julian #Assange’s extradition case appears to be based on political motivations: his transparency and accountability are perceived as threats by this Trump Admin

7. prof Rogers, a political scientist: Julian #Assange’s political view? He’s a libertarian who believes in transparency and accountability to protect human rights

8. Prof Rogers, a political scientist:
#Trump sees Julian #Assange as an enemy. There is a huge involvement of political changes in US in this case

9. Pretty irritating how James Lewis, lawyer for the US authorities,asks complex questions to witnesses, and requires short ‘yes’ and ‘no’ answers

10. Unbelievable how this hearing requires witnesses to find specific statements and facts in huge bundles containing hundreds and hundreds of pages and to do it very quickly as the US counsel asks complex questions and requires yes/no answers

11. Again: James Lewis,a lawyer representing US authorities, tries to put expert witnesses( yesterday he did it with prof Feldstein, today with prof Rogers) in a bad light representing them as “biased” experts, while they are required to be “unbiased”

12. Prof Rogers: why is this prosecution brought now? It is in the wider context of political changes in US

13. A political scientist, prof Rogers is able to deal brilliantly with insidious questions by James Lewis, the US counsel

14. James Lewis,a lawyer representing US authorities, insists again (how obsessive): this prosecution is narrowly limited to the publication of unredacted docs containing the names of informants/sources

15. annoying how prof Rogers is NOT allowed by James Lewis,the US counsel, to explain why, as an expert, he argues that this prosecution is POLITICAL. Isn’t absurd that a political scientist is not allowed to elaborate on this?

16. Brilliant answers by prof Rogers to James Lewis,US counsel, trying to imply that the reason why Obama Admin didn’t charge JA was because he was in the embassy. How absurd this argument: Obama charged Snowden though he was outside US jurisdiction