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ABC News: As his isolation intensifies, WikiLeaks' Julian Assange faces possible threat of eviction, extradition
LONDON — For Julian Assange, the world’s most famous whistleblower, freedom could be dangerous.
As his residency at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London enters its seventh year, the self-styled cyber revolutionary – WikiLeaks’ founder and controversial publisher of some of the world’s most closely guarded official secrets – is facing a pair of converging crises that have left his allies fearing for his wellbeing and his safety.
Inside the embassy, he is living an increasingly secluded existence, having been stripped of his phones, computers and visitor privileges after running afoul of the very government that gave him asylum. Outside the embassy, he is embroiled in the global political scandal surrounding Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election, with questions about his role in that drama being raised by friends and foes alike.
In more ways than one, the very walls protecting Assange also appear to be closing in.
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WNU Editor: I can easily see him in a U.S. prison within a year. Ecuador wants him gone, and unless they make a deal with the U.K. on giving his safe passage to another country, he will be evicted.
It would seem to me that anyone wanting answers visa vis the Clinton email chicanery would want very much to talk to him.
ReplyDeleteAssange is a contradiction in many ways. He respected and even loved in the US because of his fearless release of the poisonous Democratic National Committee emails. However he then made a huge mistake by releasing the US National Security Administration's cyber attack programs, and they were soon used by international cyber criminals to steal millions from people worldwide. Why he did this, which defied all common sense and morality, I will never know, and this mistake clouds Assange's reputation and his future.
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