Since his arrest last week, how many of you thought that Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange might be in big trouble? Even so, didn’t you think the timing a little odd? I mean, how long had Assange been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, almost 8 years? And if the authorities arrested him last week, why didn’t they two weeks ago? A year ago? Five years ago? What was different last week than any time previous, such that it made the Ecuadorian President Moreno decide to allow British law enforcement inside the embassy and snatch Assange from his safe place and arrest him? Could it be the recently unsealed indictment of Assange by the US Department of Justice? And if that might be the case, why was it unsealed just now, almost a decade after the offense it alleges? According to the Ecuadorian President, Ecuadorians were simply tired of “aggressive behavior” on the part of the notably mild-mannered Assange. Plausible explanation? Let’s take a closer look.
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Assange in Big Trouble? Maybe Not
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Since his arrest last week, how many of you thought that Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange might be in big trouble? Even so, didn’t you think the timing a little odd? I mean, how long had Assange been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, almost 8 years? And if the authorities arrested him last week, why didn’t they two weeks ago? A year ago? Five years ago? What was different last week than any time previous, such that it made the Ecuadorian President Moreno decide to allow British law enforcement inside the embassy and snatch Assange from his safe place and arrest him? Could it be the recently unsealed indictment of Assange by the US Department of Justice? And if that might be the case, why was it unsealed just now, almost a decade after the offense it alleges? According to the Ecuadorian President, Ecuadorians were simply tired of “aggressive behavior” on the part of the notably mild-mannered Assange. Plausible explanation? Let’s take a closer look.