So far the charges seem to relate to Manning, not the election. I don’t expect any charges re the latter.
I was saying what the specific formal charge was for the initial UK arrest, post-embassy expulsion. I totally agree with you that the Ecuadorians threw him out for their own reasons.
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Possibly to do with getting an IMF loan.
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Yeah, I don’t get the feeling the head of Ecuador needed an extra financial incentive to want to wrap up Assange’s room and board.
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So … you’re saying that you are unclear on whether rape is good or bad?
That’s an interesting admission.
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You’re right, laws shouldn’t protect everybody, just people we like.
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No, but it certainly wouldn’t be illegal, and it’s no more unethical than, say, MSNBC not discussing legitimate criticisms of Clinton and the Iraq war. Not even remotely worth extraditing someone for.
Also, given that it was true, being more angry over the fact that it was leaked than over the fact that it was done in the first place strikes me as mind-bogglingly hypocritical.
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Laws should protect everybody. And traitors and rapists should be arrested.
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Loyalty from Trump and reciprocity of good will aren’t really his style. Plus Assange has enough mouth to say lots of inconvenient stuff. It 's just good “information hygeine” to tie up loose ends.
Anyway… Assange betting pool is open and your options are
A) solitary confinement forever
B) fatal crash on the way to the courtroom
C) he goes down like Lee Harvey Oswalt
D) leans too far out a 10th story window
E) suicide
F) “suicide”
G) food poisoning
H) “food poisoning”
I) heart trouble
J) fight with an inmate
K) accidentally gets an excessive dose of insulin.
Place your bets
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“What’s the difference between WikiLeaks and the New York Times?”
Well, the Times does research, has fact-checkers, checks leaked material for other sensitive concerns before publishing it, has a deep backbench of qualified reporters and editors and a long-time tradition of journalistic judgement. And a couple Pulitzer Prizes. Plus, it issues corrections for errors. There’s a couple differences.
In related news: Watching J. Assange claim ‘Freedom of Speech’ or that WikiLeaks is “Journalism” (because if WikiLeaks is “Journalism”, then so is CTRL-V) is a reaaaaaal funny thing.
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If that beard gets any longer he can beardcock it.
You forgot bone saw accident while filing paperwork.
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Yes, they have a record of suppressing news that the US govt doesn’t want us to know.
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How about “voluntarily” incommunicado like the Skripals.
The IMF approved a 4.2 billion dollar loan to Ecuador on April 4. The GDP of Ecuador is about 100 billion; thus that is 4%
From the IMF’s own website:
“As IMF lending is usually accompanied by a set of corrective policy actions, it also provides a seal of approval that appropriate policies are taking place.”
Probably just be a coincidence.
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Was Judith Miller a “researcher” or a “fact checker”?
http://americanfreepress.net/new-york-times-we-pushed-for-war-in-iraq/
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Acting out without considering the consequences is a tantrum. If he really wanted to destroy Clinton, he should have waited until after she was elected.
Totally coincidence.
Following a June 2018 visit by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, who agreed with President Moreno to improve the US-Ecuador relations which were strained under the presidency of Rafael Correa. Ecuador launched a security effort with the United States, including buying weapons, radar sets, six helicopters and other equipment, as well as cooperation with the U.S. will include training and intelligence sharing.[30]
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That ideal has nothing to do with how Assange will be “tried”. Most likely, all the charges will be sealed, all the “courtroom” hearings will be classified as National Security matters, and even his punishment will be sealed - all on grounds of “National Security”.
I predict he is going to just disappear once the news about him dies down.
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You forgot radioactive isotope poisoning.
Or VX gas.
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No doubt the jokes have already begun about how unbearably quiet the embassy will become in his absence.
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