Assange asylum 'may harm Ecuador'

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3. It's the Ambassador's job to know what's up and about, so she can advise her government on it

What's up and about, in a city like DC, reflects all manner of different influences, and how well the Ambassador knows the ins and outs of THAT will depend on how broad her network of contacts is

The key to accurately parsing political is to know exactly who said exactly what in exactly which context -- and the more background one has on all parts of that, the better

Corporations worried about their emails being leaked are likely to want Wikileaks neutralized for example, but their lobbyists will probably not go after it so brazenly: they will pick a particular angle for their attack

DiFi in the Senate was arguably serving as a mouthpiece for the military-industrial interests that help bankroll her

Of course, the US Ambassador to Down Under probably just described the state of affairs as accurately as he could, to the best of his knowledge. He might have been instructed to lie, or he might have been deliberately misled, but those are less likely, since they would tend to undermine credibility, the sine qua non of successful diplomacy

Naturally, the actual view of the Justice Departmnt, concerning an espionage investigation, might not coincide with the view of corporate officials concerned about their own emails or of various Senators or Ambassadors