He’s already spent 7 years under virtual house arrest. He should have just done the time when the Swedish police were after him. He probably would have been out in 6 months, albeit with a criminal record; but really, that sort of thing comes with the territory if you decide to go up against governments.
2 Likes
If they had got him when they were hurting from the leaks it could have gone worse for him though.
Since then people have realized that no one cares about all the lies anyway 
So whose bidding do they do? A secret cabal of shadowy Illuminati in a smoke filled room? They can’t get Hillary elected, or an unredacted Mueller report released, but they can somehow coerce both the Ecuadorian embassy to strip Assange of protections and pressure the U.K. authorities to arrest him and extradite him? That makes more sense to you than the Trump administration losing patience with him?
Sometimes a cigar is a cigar. Assange could’ve used Occam’s razor himself to shave off that Santa beard.
1 Like
The former wouldn’t be that hard, and they don’t necessarily need to achieve the latter. He’s out in the open now at least.
Yes, but it depends on where you put that cigar. 
1 Like
It was hard enough they couldn’t get the embassy to release him for the last 7 years. Part of this, is the Ecuadorians finally losing patience with their “house guest.”
and his cat
4 Likes
Assange was arrested on a U.S. extradition request, according to his lawyer.
Apparently, the DOJ indictment has nothing to do with 2016…it’s all about the Manning classified document dump. Maximum sentence, five years.
My understanding is that he is just the conduit…3rd parties gave him intel…he even redacted some sensitive stuff. It’s a crime to call out any Governments now on wrong doing? Manning , I guess may be an exception if he is convicted, but originally I used to think Assange was bad…now I’m not so sure .
Again, lets see. I seem to remember Trump stating that he would pardon Assange ? Maybe I was dreaming ?
good
1 Like
Their argument is going to be that Assange assisted Manning directly in stealing the documents. This seems pretty tenuous and hard to prove.
things that NYT, Washington Post, Newsweek, etc. all have done.
From Watergate until now, the mainstream media has done what Wikileaks has done, hundred-fold.
1 Like
Not often that you approve of a Trump administration policy and I disapprove. 
We should probably quit now
and I even changed the title for you 
That’s the last thing I want or need 
I’m masajiphobic
Assange has been threatening forever about delivering further dirt on the elites if he is arrested.
Time will tell how much a bluff this was
True that. The press has been the perennial enemy of State secrecy, which (on some occasions at least) has a purpose. Whistleblowers, by their nature, tend to blow the whistle only when something that the State is doing offends their personal moral code. The press will publish anything if it sells some column-inches.
I suspect that they will change direction and not be happy with this whistleblower , but we shall see in the coming days.
hopefully, like the end result in the Mueller cat-chasing-tail affair
Probably he can dig some dirt out of a ditch