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Swedish Prosecutor Finally Treks to London to Question Julian Assange

posted by janrinok on Tuesday November 15 2016, @12:23AM   Printer-friendly
from the times-they-are-a'changing dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is finally being questioned by prosecutors more than six years after he was first accused of rape in Sweden.

Ingrid Isgren, Sweden's deputy chief prosecutor, arrived at the Ecuadorian Embassy this morning, according to The Guardian, ending a stalemate which began in 2012 when the South American nation offered Assange political asylum on the grounds that he faced political persecution from the United States.

Assange claims that the rape accusations, which he denies, are part of a plot to extradite him to the United States that would swing into action were he to answer prosecutors' questions in the Scandinavian country.

The interview suggests some forward movement is being made in the diplomatic deadlock between Ecuador and Sweden regarding the arrangements for Swedish prosecutors to talk to Assange in the embassy.

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday November 15 2016, @04:32PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday November 15 2016, @04:32PM (#427027) Journal

    Well, let's see.

    Would the blog that Chris Ruddy runs on the Clinton Foundation site work for you [clintonfoundation.org]?

    How about his editorial lauding Bill and Hillary Clinton and saying he is one of their donors [newsmax.com]?

    How about the story in the Weekly Standard about the $1 million pledge Chris Ruddy gave to the Clinton Foundation [weeklystandard.com]?

    There you have the guy himself defending the Clintons, admitting he gives them money, and third party verification that he does. Does that count as substantiated for you yet, or does your Quellenkritik persist?

    The point I made, and continue to make, stands: the elites only pretend to be at each other's throats for the cameras, to keep the hoi poloi distracted, when in fact they are all pals and work together to suppress democracy and extract wealth they have not earned. In other words, they rig the game for their benefit, and we all lose.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @06:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @06:14PM (#427081)

    the elites only pretend to be at each other's throats for the cameras, to keep the hoi poloi distracted, when in fact they are all pals and work together to suppress democracy and extract wealth they have not earned.

    Yup. Just look at how fast das Fuhrer Drumpf went from "Crooked Hillary, source of all evil" to "The Clintons are good people, I don't want to hurt them".