Here’s the Ecuador connection:
Correa has expelled three of our ambassadors since he took office in 2007.
We became aware of massive corruption by Correa and his henchmen. Many secured emails were sent by our embassy back to DC with details and those emails named our sources within the Ecuadoran government.
Assange and Wikileaks obtained about 1,500 of our secret emails on the subject of corruption but only released one that got our ambassador Heather Hodges expelled in 2010.
Now Assange gets arrested and ordered deported to Sweden. Assange has offered the rest of the emails to Ecuador in return for citizenship.
As soon as Assange is an Ecuadoran citizen, Ecuador plans to make Assange a diplomat and he would then be free to travel to Ecuador under diplomatic immunity.
If Ecuador get those emails, there will be a purge of Ecuadoran officials that informed on Correa or are working for us as agents. They will likely be executed or murdered.
This is a deadly business Assange is playing in.
Anybody who infuriates politicians and diplomats like Assange should be regarded as a hero.
All he has done is release information.
He has never fired a shot in anger, nor started a war. You cannot say that about his vile enemies.
Thanks gandalftb.