Tlaib Leads Letter to DOJ to Drop Charges Against Julian Assange; Defends Freedom of Press

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44. I wonder how you know who was asked and who wasn't...

Or why you spend so much time wondering about things and not just going and finding out for yourself. Seems a complete waste of time to me and a bit of a distraction from the actual issue.

I do see a lot of inflexibility from Americans at DU about Julian Assange and it comes across as rage and hatred. I think he's a massive wanker who used people like Chelsea Manning. I'm also repelled by the way Wikileaks changed direction and started to leak things that were clearly aimed at making Democrats look bad. But that doesn't mean he should be in prison for the rest of his life.

While our previous conservative government did nothing and was happy for Julian Assange to rot in Belmarsh, we now have a Labor government (they're probs a bit further to the left on the political scale than Democrats in the US) and our Prime Minister wants it resolved.

The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, says he has personally urged the US government to end its pursuit of Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange.

In his most in-depth comments about the diplomatically sensitive issue in months, Albanese said he had raised the Assange case “recently in meetings” with US representatives and he vowed to continue to press for it to be brought to a close.



Albanese contrasted Assange’s legal situation with that of the former US army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who was released in 2017 when Barack Obama commuted her 35-year military prison sentence for leaking the information.

Albanese said he did not have sympathy for Assange’s actions “on a whole range of matters”, but he asked: “What is the point of this continuing this legal action which could be caught up now for many years into the future?”

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/nov/30/australian-prime-minister-anthony-albanese-us-government-julian-assange-wikileaks