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Four years after Julian Assange took refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, Sweden may finally get a chance to question him.
The WikiLeaks founder has been holed up at the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden, where prosecutors want to question him about sexual assault allegations.
Assange, an Australian, has not been charged and has denied any wrongdoing in the Sweden case.
After years of diplomatic back-and-forth, Ecuador's foreign ministry says it will allow Swedish officials access to the embassy so they can question Assange.
"The attorney general's office notified the prosecutor of the kingdom of Sweden of its willingness to process the interrogation of Julian Assange," Ecuador's foreign ministry said in a statement.
A spokesman for the Swedish Prosecution Authority welcomed the announcement.
"This is a positive step and allows the investigation to continue," the spokesman said.
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joshcryer
(62,268 posts)What happens then? Everyone familiar with the Swedish process is that they don't charge you until they interview you.
My guess is Assange will filibuster this interview like last time, and blame Sweden. Only 4 more years until the statute of limitations are up on the final charge (August 2020). He'll wait it out.
Which is pitiful on one hand, as a sort of self-imposed prison sentence (in conditions likely worse than a Swedish jail would have been). But pathetic on the other, since the ladies involved won't ever see their day in court and the innuendos about them will continue the rest of their lives.
cali
(114,904 posts)I didn't know that there was a "last time".
I interpreted it as being a crack in the Ecuadorian wall of protection.
joshcryer
(62,268 posts)http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sweden-assange-idUSKCN0QF1N820150810
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/02/sweden-assange/461931/
Assanges lawyers want access to all the files before the interview is to be allowed, and they use Ecuador as their scapegoat when the prosecutors aren't allowed to interview him. Then Assange throws his hands up and acts like it's not his fault.
cali
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dsc
(52,152 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)With Assange trying to influence politics in other countries from his safe haven, I'm sure Ecuador will be only too happy to be rid of him.
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cali
(114,904 posts)Let's Talk About Julian Assange's Latest Conspiracy Theory
Here's a fresh sheet of Reynolds for your tin foil cap.
Anybody with a brain knew that once Hillary Rodham Clinton began her second pursuit of the presidency we all would be returning to the cocktail lounge of the Mena Airport just in time for the perpetual Happy Hour. And, yes, dear friends, here we are again.
But wait, there seem to be some new folks hanging around the bar these days with new tales to tell. Whoa. Hey! I think the future of freedom just walked in? I sense that the world is changing around us. It is a whole new day!
Isn't that…him? Via Buzzfeed:
"Whistleblowers often take very significant efforts to bring us material and often at very significant risks," Assange said in an interview to be aired Tuesday on the Dutch television program Nieuwsuur. "There's a 27-year-old who works for the DNC and who was shot in the back, murdered, just a few weeks ago, for unknown reasons as he was walking down the streets in Washington." Seth Rich, a DNC employee who did voter outreach, was shot to death last month early in the morning in Washington, D.C. The case is unsolved and police have speculated it was an attempted robbery. "I am suggesting that our sources take risks and they become concerned to see things occurring like that," Assange added, when asked what he was alleging. "We don't comment on who our sources are." Asked by interviewer Eelco Bosch van Rosenthal why he would speculate about someone being shot, Assange said it showed "our sources face serious risks." "We have to understand how high the stakes are in the US, and that our sources face serious risks. That's why they come to us, so we can protect their anonymity," he said.
Oh, just bite me, you indecent international squatter. If I were an Ecuadorian taxpayer, I'd be pretty pissed.
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http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a47526/assange-dnc-staffer-shot/
randome
(34,845 posts)A random death in Washington D.C. and -lo and behold!- another Clinton conspiracy is born!
What does it say about our supposed 'heroes' -like Assange and Snowden- who always paint themselves into a corner? It says they're not too bright, imo.
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cali
(114,904 posts)DNC emails.
I think he's a different kettle of fish from Assange.
(though my heroes do not inhabit the political world)
randome
(34,845 posts)I'd have thought they'd be in sync seeing as how much they admire Russia.
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cali
(114,904 posts)Maybe I've missed it, but I don't think Snowden admires Russia- it's just where he ended up because he didn't want to spend the rest of his life in a SuperMax.
And I think early WikiLeaks, circa 2006-2009, did valuable work. Then it became Assange's private fiefdom. I never had an affinity for Assange personally- something about him always creeped me out; before the sexual assault accusations. I feel differently about Snowden, who I think is basically a decent person.
Chemisse
(30,803 posts)GD-2016 is just for threads about the elections. Please repost in GD.
