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In reply to the discussion: Context and the Assange case. [View all]cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)Australia is staying out of the affair, and AFAIK, Assange hasn't ever appealed to them for assistance. Any US involvement is 100% conjecture on the part of Assange and his followers. As struggle4progress says in the post above, most of Assange's Wikileaks activities are not illegal under US law - the only avenue for US charges depend on some of the specifics of the Manning leak, and even those would be hard to build a case around.
Furthermore, if the US did request extradition, there are lots of impediments to that being fulfilled. Sweden and the UK would both have to agree to it, and his legal entanglements in those countries would have to be resolved as well. Sweden would be unlikely to agree thanks to our death penalty, and also because they don't extradite for political crimes.