Hague ignored lawyers to send Assange 'threat' note

[JDPriestly]

9. Rape is a serious accusation, but does it strike anyone else

that pursuing extradition on a rape charge -- especially based on the facts claimed against Assange -- hardly warrants storming the embassy of a foreign country thereby challenging the understandings that have enabled peaceful international relations for more than half a century?

That Hague reacted with such outrage supports the theory that the real purpose of the extradition from the UK and perhaps even of the rape charge is to bring Assange to the US.

Assange is no longer working with Wikileaks as I understand it. And let's hope that our intelligence has figured out a way to prevent leaks of the kind that benefited Assange -- and leave it at that.

All this attention to Assange's case is not helping the US or the UK it seems to me.