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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @09:29PM
You're talking about a guy working with the Russians to get as much dirt on Clinton they could, and he was timing his releases to do the maximum damage to her (just before the Dem Convention, two weeks before the general election, etc.), and only her. Even if she really did make that comment, are you seriously holding against her an off-the-cuff and off-mike comment, even if made out of frustration and not as a joke? Seriously? I've seen many of your posts, and I know you'd have much more to say than that. Geez, It reminds me of that time that we almost seriously started WWIII when Reagan outlawed Russia and definitively started the first strike [wikipedia.org]. Wait, what? You mean he wasn't serious??
I swear the alt-right and the rest of the vocal republicans are the biggest set of crybabies and whiners and pathetic losers, bar none. Remember how "outrageous" it was when Clinton used the term "basket of deplorables"? Remember all the wailing and gnashing of teeth and the butthurt that was felt from Hannity all the way down to the crassest racist asshole with the Trump sign? OMG, their feelings were hurt! They had to take a breath from their string of invectives hurled at Clinton: "Crooked Hillary", "Bitch", etc., etc., etc, but OMG, say "basket of deplorables" and they all faint away with the vapors. Is your red stick shoved so far up your ass that you are so removed from reality or from being able to look into the mirror for any signs of hypocrisy?
No, I guess not.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday November 15 2016, @11:25PM
"are you seriously holding against her an off-the-cuff and off-mike comment,"
Most certainly.
"I know you'd have much more to say than that."
Hmmm. You are both right, and wrong. I have said much worse. I'm the man who had the squad leader's back when we hit the beach. I carried an M-14 out into fuzzy-wuzzy land (Rudyard Kipling, for those of you who don't understand the reference) I most certainly DID say much worse than "can't we just drone the guy".
But, my targets were all awake, standing up, and facing me, with weapons in their hands (Mal, in Firefly).
I'm not one to suggest murdering a man in his sleep, or to bomb him at his wedding, or kill his family as he drives along to visit Grandma. I am from an entirely different culture than Hillary, and her murderous clan.
This alt-right nonsense. If it makes you feel better to call me names, go right ahead. But, for the record, I am INDEFUCKINGPENDENT!! I didn't vote for Trump. I posted my vote in another thread. I voted Johnson, and went right on down the ticket voting for Libertarians.
Thanks for playing, though.
Oh - crybabies and whiners. My wife just read to me an article she stumbled across. Do you know why Hillary didn't return to the post-election event with her senior party people?
BECAUSE SHE WAS THROWING A TANTRUM!! That's right, a full blown tantrum, like you might expect from little boys and girls who have just left toddlerhood.
THAT was your "presidential material", LMAO