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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)story all over again. They did what people in Sweden do when they have a question about something, they did NOT go to the police to file charges, or to report a crime. They had a question, presumably about a man wearing a condom or not. Sweden has some very strange laws governing adult sexual relationships, unheard of in other countries. But that's a whole other story, complete with some lunatics, one of whom got himself involved in this case, no surprise, a world class lunatic.
So, what they did was to go to the place where questions such as 'if someone doesn't wear a condom, can I sue him' etc. etc. And somehow the police, who broke the law btw, made those questions public and they appeared almost immediately in one of Sweden's most right wing news publications. Almost as if it was all planned.
The case should be, and originally was supposed to be, an investigation into who leaked this, against Sweden's laws, to the equivalent of Fox or FR. So far, we do not know if that investigation has taken place.
No charges were filed, no allegations of rape were ever made, a question about a possible misdemeanor was escalated, then shut down by a Sr. Prosecutor after reviewing the questions. And then, it was resurrected for the purpose of smearing a News Organization that had revealed inconvenient facts about the Bush war crimes.
Would Rove, at the time an 'adviser' to the Swedish PM, have had an interest in getting revenge against someone who did what he was able to keep the US media from doing, expose the crimes of his boss? Imo, there is no doubt.