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In reply to the discussion: Context and the Assange case. [View all]hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Wikileaks, then headed by Assange, released documents verifying the bogus bases for the Iraq war and tht torture was approved at the highest levels of the American government and that the Brits cooperated.
This infuriated people in the US and British governments. They don't like the truth about things like this coming out about such things and that applies to ANY administration. Witness Obama's war on whistleblowers in general and Chelsea Manning in particular. English and American spy agencies were sicced on Assange and enlisted the agencies of other allied/NATO countries to assist them.
Someone, presumably Swedish intelligence, recruited, bribed, blackmailed, or otherwise coerced women to have sex with Assange. Post 104 in this thread http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027071323 supports this notion. Following these sexual encounters with Assange, they filed sexual assault charges, presumably on the instructions of and inconformance with the orders given by the organization that recruited/coerced them.
The plan was to arrest Assange, hold a show trial, and then turn him over to MI6, or most likely the CIA, where he would be tortured and then disappeared to some black site. The cover explanation would be that he died from (make up the reason here) in prison.
This is incredibly simple. It was done to many prisoners seized in Cheney's War. This is what spy agencies do, the reason they exist. The spy agencies and those who direct them are the only villains here and I do not understand how people can fail to see that.
It's an educated guess that fits with similar actioins that have already been observed and exhaustively documented.