US denies 'wild' Assange claims of witch-hunt

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25. What can I say? The guy got himself into the news: his Swedish girlfriends complained to the police;

his holocaust-denier buddy was immediately turning out web-content accusing the women of being radical feminists and CIA stooges; by skipping out of Sweden while his lawyer was negotiating an interview with the police, he managed to get Sweden grumpy enough to swear out a warrant on him; then he manages to be associated with a huge breech of US military security; he fights the Swedish warrant through the UK courts, losing at every level, then jumps bail, thereby stiffing his friends of three or four hundred thousand dollars; and he holes up in an embassy and convinces Ecuador to start an international diplomatic incident around him, on some completely idiotic strategy that will finally accomplish nothing except pissing-off Sweden and the UK. In addition to which, his support is largely based on crackpot theories, loudly repeated over and over again without any coherent attention to details