Julian Assange loses extradition appeal at Supreme Court
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scherzkeks said:
Our intel agencies have a history of sex smears. Right now Wiki has some of the old documents up from the FBI threatening to smear Martin Luther King in a similar manner.
Futhermore, there was also a recent attempt to smear Assange as a pedo; info. breaking down the situation is also at Wiki and ZH.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-19/hillary-c...
You'd think that bods would know these endeavours will never end well for them, since the anonymous/wikileaks/4chan/billionbillionnerdnet lot will always track down the origin via the internet highway.Futhermore, there was also a recent attempt to smear Assange as a pedo; info. breaking down the situation is also at Wiki and ZH.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-19/hillary-c...
Halb said:
scherzkeks said:
Our intel agencies have a history of sex smears. Right now Wiki has some of the old documents up from the FBI threatening to smear Martin Luther King in a similar manner.
Futhermore, there was also a recent attempt to smear Assange as a pedo; info. breaking down the situation is also at Wiki and ZH.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-19/hillary-c...
You'd think that bods would know these endeavours will never end well for them, since the anonymous/wikileaks/4chan/billionbillionnerdnet lot will always track down the origin via the internet highway.Futhermore, there was also a recent attempt to smear Assange as a pedo; info. breaking down the situation is also at Wiki and ZH.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-19/hillary-c...
Halb said:
jshell said:
...and that's one of the reasons they spend so much time tracking them down...
That the government bods are stupid?That is changing. The pedo smear is something that could never have been exposed so quickly and effectively in the past.
This is a few years old but it would suggest that there isn't really the will in America to prosecute him.
washingtonpost said:
The Justice Department has all but concluded it will not bring charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing classified documents because government lawyers said they could not do so without also prosecuting U.S. news organizations and journalists, according to U.S. officials.
The officials stressed that a formal decision has not been made, and a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks remains impaneled, but they said there is little possibility of bringing a case against Assange, unless he is implicated in criminal activity other than releasing online top-secret military and diplomatic documents.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/world/national-security/julian-assange-unlikely-to-face-us-charges-over-publishing-classified-documents/2013/11/25/dd27decc-55f1-11e3-8304-caf30787c0a9_story.html?client=safariThe officials stressed that a formal decision has not been made, and a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks remains impaneled, but they said there is little possibility of bringing a case against Assange, unless he is implicated in criminal activity other than releasing online top-secret military and diplomatic documents.
One of his lawyers says that he will stand by his promise and would leave the Ecuadorian embassy.
"Melinda Taylor, a member of Mr Assange's legal team, insisted that those previous comments made about the implications of the Manning case still stand.
"Everything that he has said he's standing by," she said."
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-an...
"Melinda Taylor, a member of Mr Assange's legal team, insisted that those previous comments made about the implications of the Manning case still stand.
"Everything that he has said he's standing by," she said."
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-an...
williamp said:
I'm sure he will do, and the timing will ensure Trump will be made to look like a cruel merciless leader hell bent on revenge by the lefty press...
As others have noted above, the US currently don't care. It's the Swedes who want him. Though don't they have a statute of limitations on what he's accused of? I wonder if that's run its course now.
Or has he just run out of cheesy wetsuits, boxes of Kleenex and exceeded the Ecuadorian embassy's PlusNet account's fair use policy?
Regardless, hopefully our plod will grab him and kick him out of the country. Not too bothered where, anywhere just not here.
Murph7355 said:
As others have noted above, the US currently don't care. It's the Swedes who want him.
Though don't they have a statute of limitations on what he's accused of? I wonder if that's run its course now.
Or has he just run out of cheesy wetsuits, boxes of Kleenex and exceeded the Ecuadorian embassy's PlusNet account's fair use policy?
Regardless, hopefully our plod will grab him and kick him out of the country. Not too bothered where, anywhere just not here.
:sigh:Though don't they have a statute of limitations on what he's accused of? I wonder if that's run its course now.
Or has he just run out of cheesy wetsuits, boxes of Kleenex and exceeded the Ecuadorian embassy's PlusNet account's fair use policy?
Regardless, hopefully our plod will grab him and kick him out of the country. Not too bothered where, anywhere just not here.
Work it though.
Leaves Embassy - Arrested by UK Plod.
UK Plod either extradite to Sweden or to USA 'for questioning'
If the latter the USA will arrest and 'question' him before releasing him with 'insufficient information to proceed with their proposed prosecution' and then extradite him to Sweden.
Meatballs all round.
Finlandia said:
Does this mean that the Swedish rape charges "disappear"?
There aren't any 'charges' to disappear. He is wanted for questioning about an allegation - he is not charged with anything, currently.Not that you would know, as whenever the mainstream news media discuss the matter they repeatedly refer to non-existant 'charges' as they know it will sink in to the public consciousness and reinforce what is really an extremely flimsy narrative.
Comprehensive summary of what is alleged to have happened, here:
http://observer.com/2016/02/exclusive-new-docs-thr...
Assange repeatedly offered to answer questioning from the Swedish authorities in the embassy but until recently the Swedes weren't interested. Still no word of what is happening now that they finally have questioned him. It's possible that they could go ahead and issue an actual charge.
Lucas Ayde said:
Finlandia said:
Does this mean that the Swedish rape charges "disappear"?
There aren't any 'charges' to disappear. He is wanted for questioning about an allegation - he is not charged with anything, currently.Not that you would know, as whenever the mainstream news media discuss the matter they repeatedly refer to non-existant 'charges' as they know it will sink in to the public consciousness and reinforce what is really an extremely flimsy narrative.
Comprehensive summary of what is alleged to have happened, here:
http://observer.com/2016/02/exclusive-new-docs-thr...
Assange repeatedly offered to answer questioning from the Swedish authorities in the embassy but until recently the Swedes weren't interested. Still no word of what is happening now that they finally have questioned him. It's possible that they could go ahead and issue an actual charge.
Wonder why the gang raped wheelchair bound woman had her case shut down, even with DNA proof and the rapists living in the same town, the so called justice system didn't do a fraction of what it's done to nail JA.
BlackLabel said:
One of his lawyers says that he will stand by his promise and would leave the Ecuadorian embassy.
"Melinda Taylor, a member of Mr Assange's legal team, insisted that those previous comments made about the implications of the Manning case still stand.
"Everything that he has said he's standing by," she said."
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-an...
In a development that will shock no-one, he's decided that because the sentence was commuted rather than there being a pardon that this doesn't actually count and he'll be staying in his hidey hole."Melinda Taylor, a member of Mr Assange's legal team, insisted that those previous comments made about the implications of the Manning case still stand.
"Everything that he has said he's standing by," she said."
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-an...
I'm sure the Ecuadorians thought they'd finally get their sofa back but apparently no such luck.
Apparently he has changed his mind. Who would have seen that coming
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/assange...
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-an...
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/assange...
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-an...
KTF said:
Apparently he has changed his mind: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/assange...
Jonesey noted it yesterday. No surprise to anyone. scherzkeks said:
jshell said:
Andy Zarse said:
jshell said:
But, Sweden are pursuing Assange who is accused of rape for taking off a condom whilst having consensual sex? Pull the other one...
jshell displaying the Donald Trump attitude towards respecting women, thus:If a dumb broad says please don't cough your yoghurt inside my body, it's perfectly okay to ignore the stupid bh's instruction, just tell her to brace herself and be grateful.
How terribly twenty first century of you.
Futhermore, there was also a recent attempt to smear Assange as a pedo; info. breaking down the situation is also at Wiki and ZH.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-19/hillary-c...
scherzkeks said:
Andy Zarse said:
Yes absolutely, it is far more likely to be a compicated international security services sting, as opposed to Assange just fking a couple of girls who were in awe of him <swoon>.
Yes, given who Assange is, I would say it is more likely to be the former.Have you read up on the backgrounds of the women he sexually assaulted (for want of a better expression)?
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