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RE: A Retrospective Look At The Work WikiLeaks Made Possible As Assange Remains Silenced
WikiLeaks is not classified as a terrorist organization, nor is Assange considered a terrorist, he'll never go to Gitmo if he ever does get arrested and extradited to the US. There would be mass protest out in the streets if that ever happened.
How are you justifying your blatant disregard for reality? Jesus. Mike Pompeo directly compared Wikileaks with Al Qaeda:
Pompeo also classified Wikileaks as a "hostile non-state intelligence service," and has devoted a huge amount of energy to destroying Assange. Jeff Sessions has called Assange's arrest a priority. That arrest predicates that there must be US charges against Assange. The existence of these charges was confirmed even by state propoganda like CNN.
I don't know what planet you're getting your information from, but it's clearly not the one we live on.
There's nothing there, no terrorist links, no murders, bombings, nothing but publishing, those same materials were published by news outlets in the US....do you see any of them sitting in jail? Unless there's a direct link to him or his organization hacking into systems publishing isn't a strong enough charge. Any judge is going to tell them that Pompeo may feel terrorized by having that information published but that doesn't mean Assange is a terrorist. What they want is to keep him contained, they want to know where he is at, what he is doing, what he is up to, to easily monitor him so threatening him with meaningless charges is the only way to keep him self contained by fear. For bail jumping charges have to be pretty serious, enough evidence would have had to be presented for the likelihood he was trying to escape a long sentence, that isn't happening here, at best he'd get fined maybe a small sentence of a few days in jail. BUT....using that to scare him along with threats from the US ensures that he self contains himself, where he can easily be monitored, where they can watch who is coming and going...it's all a ploy because they know they don't have enough evidence to charge him with anything less then what they'd have to charge publishers with who have done the exact same thing. They also know he is considered a hero by most people, those same people have voting power, protest power....many, many people here in the US aren't going to forget he saved us from a Hillary presidency. They aren't going to take it lightly if they mishandled Assange....and the powers that be know that, they know that all they have is threats to keep him contained because they can't keep him contained any other way for any duration of time significant enough to keep him silenced. Personally I think he fears for his life more than arrest, any good lawyer is going to get him off the bail jumping and fighting extradition to the US could take years in court but like I said the US would have to have strong evidence against him to warrant such a request. Meddling in a US election isn't going to work either because there's plenty of evidence our government does the same exact thing to other countries. So what all of you are missing in all of this is that they have managed to, by way of threats and intimidation, jail Assange inside the embassy, they've met their objective and that's the real story here, imprisoned without due process.
If the US was considering a legal process, guided by due process, as you presume is the case, then:
The US would simply extradite Assange, under legal processes based on International Law.
The method they have choosen, is to cut him off and make an example out of him, as Bush/Obama/Trump did/do in this never-ending War of Terror.