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struggle4progress

(120,363 posts)
7. You need to read more carefully and with more attention to context:
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:38 AM
Sep 2012

The only clear statement from Holder says "To the extent there are gaps in our laws, we will move to close those gaps" -- but that can't threaten Mr Assange because the Constitution TWICE prohibits ex post facto laws

Of course, "former assistant attorney general" Kenneth Wainstein and "former CIA general counsel" Jeffrey H. Smith are both certainly entitled to their opinions -- but neither opinion really tells us anything definitive, and neither speaks on behalf of Holder

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