Breaking CNN: Assange's Ecuadorian refuge in jeopardy.

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15. His story always has a certain surreal and hallucinatory quality

A woman complains he had sex with her while she was unconscious, and without using a condom -- so Assange accuses her of being a CIA agent trying to set him up. He flees to the UK where, after losing a long court battle jumps bail to avoid extradition on the sex charge, he hides in an embassy for years -- a situation he and his lawyers rather oddly describe as being "detained without charge." Perhaps the oddest episode, during his time as a guest of the embassy, occurred in June 2013, when Assange announced Ecuador was supplying Snowden with refugee papers, a claim the Ecuadorian soon afterwards denied: the document did exist, but it had somehow been produced on computers in the embassy, without authorization