Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the decade-long US push to prosecute the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing a trove of American classified documents.
The guy who passed hacked intelligence from a Russian agent to the Trump campaign whilst pretending it was from DNC staffer Seth Rich (which was an alt-right conspiracy theory) even when he knew that wasn’t true, and even after Seth Rich was dead and he knew it wasn’t true?
The guy who meddled in election outcomes because he thought he had a better shot at being pardoned by Trump?
The guy who was originally on charges for slipping a condom off whilst having sex?
pretending it was from DNC staffer Seth Rich (which was an alt-right conspiracy theory).
Is it though? Then why bury seth rich’s files for 66 years?
The guy who was originally on charges for slipping a condom off whilst having sex?
I have never understood under what justification the US is demanding Assange is extradited to them and charged with espionage. He is not American, doesn’t live in the US and owes no allegiance to the US. Does the US claim some kind of universal jurisdiction in this case?
Every country has “universal” jurisdiction in the sense that they can request the extradition of any foreign individual for any reason.
It’s then up to the rest of the world whether to grant that, or more specifically whatever country the individual happens to be in.
Extradition exists because otherwise crimes commited remotely across borders would be even more rampant than they already are, and it is in the interest of governments to allow other governments to prosecute individuals that commit particularly egregious crimes across a border, or escape across a border.
Whether Assange is one of those is debatable, but the US has a lot of weight to throw around and Wikileaks offended the government specifically. So here we are.
Whether Assange is one of those is debatable, but the US has a lot of weight to throw around and Wikileaks offended the government specifically. So here we are.
Isn’t there some big nuclear submarine deal going on right now between America and Australia?
Dropping those charges doesn’t mean the CIA won’t execute a special operation.
Though, perhaps not, as if they were the case, I’d probably have happened already.
There’s no benefit to killing him. Damage is done and he’s out in the open.
You speak as if revenge itself isn’t it’s own benefit.
They already tried to assassinate him, they failed like the worthless pissbaby traitors they are.
They’ll just protect him with those Boeing whistleblower laws.
Oh wow now aside from considering arms restrictions against israel Biden is also considering not prosecuting someone for exposing war crimes.
Looks like people should consider voting for Democrat. Don’t do it though. Just consider it.