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By Nicole Lafond | May 15, 2018 1:14 pm
As Ecuador funded a multi-million dollar effort to protect Wikileaks founder Julian Assange during his stay in the countrys London embassy, Assange returned the favor by hacking into the embassys communications system, the Guardian reported Tuesday.
According to a new Guardian report outlining the details of the spy operation designed to protect Assange, the Wikileaks founders hack allowed him to intercept professional and personal communications of the embassy staff and set up his own satellite internet. The Ecuadorian embassy was warned of Assanges behavior in 2014 by a surveillance company that was hired to film Assanges interaction with visitors.
Assange has been living at the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012 to avoid extradition by the Swedish government, where he was wanted for sexual assault. Those charges were dropped in May 2017, according to the Guardian. Assange is still living at the embassy because he is wanted for jumping bail in the United Kingdom, but longtime loyalist Rafael Correa, who was Ecuadorian president from 2007 to 2017, recently said Assanges days of protection are numbered.
Assange is also hiding out to avoid the U.S. government extraditing and charging him with crimes related to his 2010 Wikileaks case, when he published a series of leaks of classified military information provided by Chelsea Manning.
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hlthe2b
(102,265 posts)Blues Heron
(5,932 posts)See Chelsea Manning's treatment
hack89
(39,171 posts)For one thing, he will not be in the military justice system like Manning was. And Manning was not tortured.
Blues Heron
(5,932 posts)you know Gina would love to lower him feet first into a shark tank.
That's just a fact.
The hyperbole employed to protect this piece of shit is amazing.
Cue the jaws music.
hlthe2b
(102,265 posts)hack89
(39,171 posts)The Brits or the Swedes won't expedite him without a valid warrant that specifies specific charges. If he is going to be prosecuted on those charges he has to be in the US justice system. Gitmo is not part of the justice system.
The more likely outcome if he ever comes out of the embassy is that the Brits hand him over to the Swedes to face the rape charges. Cleaner that way - doesn't make him a martyr.
treestar
(82,383 posts)This has always been a very strained interpretation.
He does face charges in Sweden though. After 6 years, the entire penalty could be over, even if found guilty.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)and "bye Julian."
SWBTATTReg
(22,121 posts)had a lot of help, and from whom? Probably the Russian KGB.
He's a worthless piece of roadkill, and not worth any of my time and energy, never was, never will be.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Fuck Assange.