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In reply to the discussion: Assange has requested political asylum & is in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)winning News Organization which has for years, uncovered corruption, in Tunisia, in Egypt, in Syria, in many African nations, often saving lives and in some instances helping to end dictatorships, while working with courageous reporters who put their own lives at risk to get the truth about Dictators out to the world is being smeared and silenced by Far Right elements, because he also published Bush era war crimes. Until then, no one had anything but good things to say about this new, innovative International News Organization.
Wikeleaks has received multiple awards from eg, Amnesty International and from many organizations that issue awards for excellence in journalism.
But uncovering the Bush era war crimes was apparently not going to be tolerated. So this obvious smear with its Rovian taint, despite being judged to be baseless by one of Sweden's Senior prosecutors, persisted in the Right Wing media until a new prosecutor was found. And even then, NO CHARGES were ever filed. Why? You saw the women's own words, how can a prosecutor file charges when no one has made them? It is a PLOY to silence the new media, otherwise charges would have been filed by now.
Again, he is NOT fighting answering questions. He is fighting what we know is a ploy, (revelations prove the US's intentions) to get him to Sweden and then to the US. And he is absolutely right to do so.
Fye, Wikileaks uncovered a CIA document right before this happened, AND published it on their site, plotting how they would stop Assange and Wikileaks, and settling on 'we can always get him accused of rape'.
So after having read all sides of this 'story', it is clear to me that the CIA's little plot has been put into action, and until someone provides some evidence that any of this is true, that is the consensus of a majority of people around the world.
The US will disgrace itself if they prove all of us right. What should have happened after the War Logs were revealed, is that this country should have started prosecutions of the War Criminals, instead they are going after the messenger. Shameful.