Allthough its still worth noting that sweden has, fairly recently sent 2 people off with the CIA to be tortured in egypt despite it being highly illegal to do so, We do what the US wants us to do and if it is illegal well... we just try not to let anyone know before its too late and then our security police just uses the "incompetence" defense as usual.
The only two guys I could find via the webernet were taken in 2001, shortly after September 11. Interestingly, they are both now free and admittedly guilt-free by the governments involved.
Most of this is TLDR, but at least in my US living, wide-ranging, left leaning, web-focused news coverage Assange hasn't been getting too much bad press. They're detailing what the hub-bub is about, why he doesn't want to go to Sweden, and that the Sweeds don't want to just phone interview him.
The big issue from my perspective is the reporting of WikiLeaks. They have never really been portrayed as a whistleblower organization, but something more like Anonymous or people who steal credit card databases. Always negative, always focusing on the sensitive/illegal nature of the leaks, and not the content of them.
It's smart if the goal is to limit the information. Even if Assange is guilty as sin, that's not enough to take down a website...
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Allthough its still worth noting that sweden has, fairly recently sent 2 people off with the CIA to be tortured in egypt despite it being highly illegal to do so, We do what the US wants us to do and if it is illegal well... we just try not to let anyone know before its too late and then our security police just uses the "incompetence" defense as usual.
The only two guys I could find via the webernet were taken in 2001, shortly after September 11. Interestingly, they are both now free and admittedly guilt-free by the governments involved.
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They also got paid nearly half a million dollars by the Swedish iirc.
