Posted on 10/19/2016 1:59:55 PM PDT by ColdOne
Ecuador treated Julian Assange like a trophy in 2012 when it opened the doors of its London embassy to the WikiLeaks founder, sheltering him from extradition to Sweden over rape allegations and, possibly, to the United States.
Rafael Correa, Ecuador’s leftist president, seemed to bask in Assange’s bad-boy glow, which gave the small South American nation a big role in a global drama. Protecting the WikiLeaks editor also gave Correa a way to poke Washington in the eye and look like a champion for press freedom even as he cracked down on journalists back home.
Correa embraced Assange’s mother at the presidential palace in Quito, Ecuador's capital, and championed the Australian “hacktivist” as an anti-imperialist comrade-in-arms.
Now he's treating Assange like a bad tenant who won’t leave.
On Tuesday, Ecuador’s Foreign Ministry confirmed that it was giving Assange the equivalent of a timeout by cutting off his Web access. The release by WikiLeaks of Hillary Clinton staffers’ hacked emails was having a “major impact” on the U.S. presidential race, the ministry said in a statement.
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Simplistic partisan analysis. As always there is much more to the story. Correa is in serious political trouble back home. Leftism in South America has been simmering down. There are a lot of reasons why hosting Assange does not look like the great PR move it did to him four years ago.
Ecuador finally caved to the Clinton machine. Cowards, Ecuador, you’re all cowards!!
Did he not bathe regularly? Or brush his teeth? Did he demand that servants not look at him or did he throw a glass at a servant and call a black person “a janitor”?
Or as Rush Limbaugh pointed out today, the US government was too stupid to realize all the back up that Wikileaks/Assange, etc. had.
Interesting that Assange was a hero until they started dumping Clinton dirty laundry.
They cut him off awful fast when leaks began dumping Clinton emails.
Sounds like his hotel bill is due.
Odungo (US taxpayers) must have sent the check...
there is no indication of that in the polls. Someone is lying again.
Julian Assange was Ecuador’s guest of honor. Until the Clinton Crime Family Made Ecuador An Offer They Couldn't Refuse.
Can't we just drone him?
Probably also did not think it through beyond a few months and didn’t expect this to be going on 4 years later. Will Assange ever be free to leave without legal jeopardy, or does Ecuador have to decide whether to boot him out at some point? Or do they continue to play host for years and years?
Donald Trump can Fix this:
Mr Assange, DUMP All the Incriminating Evidence you have on EVERYONE Tonight and Tomorrow, and When Elected I WILL PARDON YOU AND BRING YOU TO THE US.
President Trump.
Kerry’s dropped off a pallet of cash like he did for the Iranian govt.
Kerry’s dropped off a pallet of cash like he did for the Iranian govt.
Julian Assange was a HERO of the Left until the very day that he turned on his Socialist Masters, and released info about Obama’s Corruption.
At that very INSTANT he became a denounced worldwide wanted International Fugitive.
Funny how that works out, eh?
Wow....you are correct.
Kerry dropped off a pallet of cash like he did for the Iranian govt.
Kerry dropped off a pallet of cash like he did for the Iranian govt.
Kerry dropped off a pallet of cash like he did for the Iranian govt.
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