~Easy
Posted on 02/11/2021 7:46:39 PM PST by RandFan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden’s administration plans to continue to seek to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from the United Kingdom to the United States to face hacking conspiracy charges, the U.S. Justice Department said.
Justice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi on Tuesday said the U.S. government will continue to challenge a British judge’s ruling last month that Assange should not be extradited to the United States because of the risk he would commit suicide.
In a Jan. 4 ruling, the judge, Vanessa Baraitser, said, “I find that the mental condition of Mr. Assange is such that it would be oppressive to extradite him to the United States of America.”
The British judge set Friday as a deadline for the United States to appeal her ruling forbidding Assange’s extradition.
Raimondi said the United States will challenge Baraitser’s ruling. “We continue to seek his extradition.”
WikiLeaks drew fury from the U.S. government after publishing thousands of pages of once-secret reports and documents generated by American military and intelligence agencies, including detailed descriptions of CIA hacking capabilities. WikiLeaks also published emails hacked from Democrat Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and a key adviser, which Clinton and some of her supporters say was a factor in her election defeat to Republican Donald Trump.
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Trump should have overridden that WH attorney and pardoned Assange while he had the chance.
Agree 100%. Shame really.
Anyway, liberal outrage at this. They not happy with Mr. Biden!
Yeah, Ditto, That is what I was going to say.
Why in the name of reason did Trump not pardon Assange?
yeah, that would have fixed everything. hell, he’d still be president if he had just pardoned someone that everyone has long since stopped caring about.
Mega dittos. Amen.
And Biden (Harris) {0bama}[Clinton] Don’t want to extradite him to try him, they want to Epsteinize him.
It appears that Biden(and whoever is behind him) have not quit caring about Assange.
I also was hoping for a full pardon. Asange performed a service to the American people. For that he has suffered greatly. I can only imagine what else he is holding on to. Seth rich?
Exactly. He’ll be Epstein’d once he hits US shores. Even Maxwell will get the Russian necktie, and it’s a matter of time.
The Deep State wants him dead.
He knows Seth Rich was the source of the DNC e-mails.
Amazing how Jao Bai Dung’s handlers can continue to spend our tax dollars hand over fist...
“including detailed descriptions of CIA hacking capabilities.”
They are really mad we learned they had a collection of tools and techniques to commit computer crimes and blame it on other nations that had nothing to do with it. (wikileaks, vault 7, umbrage)
Now do tell us more about Russia breaking into those DNC computers in 2016. LOL
Not pardoning Assange but pardoning Kushner’s criminal friends was a HUGE mistake.
Progressives wants to kill him before he spills the beans on Seth
~Easy
My theory is that with Pelosi’s impeachment fixed in place, and his cabinet resigning left and right, McConnell and Pence basically stealth-deposed Trump by telling him to stay quiet, and explained to him that certain things like pardoning Snowden or Assange would mean Pence would invoke the 25th and McConnell would back it up.
I think they boxed him in hard, and he had no allies in the White House besides his family.
He was truly a decent man, and he truly could have done ten times more than he did with just the smallest amount of support from his own party and the smallest amount of common decency from the democrats.
America lost a lot when DC decided to hate him.
What about extraditing Roman Polanski?
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