The Tradeoff: Assange or Cheney?

[NYMdaveNYI]

The precarious situation in which the US will soon find itself can be looked at as a trade-off of sorts.


Option one: Have the US turn over Cheney to Nigeria, if and when a red notice is issued; and let them prosecute Assange.


Option two: Have the US not cooperate with Interpol and ignore their red notice, not hand over Cheney, and thus Assange will not face prosecution in the US.

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To clarify:

1: COOPERATE WITH INTERPOL... US gets Assange, Nigeria gets Dick

2: DO NOT COOPERATE WITH INTERPOL.... both are free


Please please K&R to the top

[Motown_Johnny]

1. Prosecute both, convict the former and acquit the latter

[Joanie Baloney]

One vote for Johnny's method!

[TexasObserver]

2. False equivalency. One is a major criminal. One isn't.

[NYMdaveNYI]

7. ’Tis not. And here’s why:

The US is bound to prosecute Assange, it’s practically inevitable. But, for this to happen, we will HAVE to turn over Cheney to Nigeria.

So do we cooperate? Or not?

[peacebird]

3. Option 3: Cheney not Assange; 4 Cheney & GWB not Assange; 5 Assange only

Please - make a poll with ALL options....

[NYMdaveNYI]

9. That’s not what it’s about!

Here’s it simplified, yet again:

Option one: COOPERATE WITH INTERPOL

Option two: DO NOT COOPERATE WITH INTERPOL

[Drale]

4. Well seeing as Dick Chaney is the most evil man

to walk the earth since Stalin, i'd say you have to get rid of him no matter what the consequences.

[Duer 157099]

5. Assange has not broken any US laws. Cheney has. n/t

[johnroshan]

6. Thats a tough one.

I don't think I can trust the Obama administration with Assange as much as I trust the Nigerian government with Cheney. The Nigerians won't try anything funny with the whole world looking. US doesn't have any such reservations.

[NYMdaveNYI]

10. Valid point.

The ‘ol crook will be dead WAAAAAY before Nigeria will even get their hands on him to stand trial, let alone conviction.

[RegieRocker]

8. Nah

what Assange did was not leaking top secret info. Just because they deem it "Classified" doesn't make it a security risk for the country. When you're up to no good (the real security risk) and if you get caught it causes you great embarrassment that is not worthy of "Classified". Giving away top secret information however is a security risk and this information is not that. For way too long, exactly what wikileaks has exposed has gone on under the hidden label "Classified".

[freesqueeze]

11. Does Prosecution mean punishment

There is talk in the Delay sentencing that "he has suffered enough."

I'm sick of well known folks leaning of their lost reputation as justification for getting away with committing major crimes. The fact that their a proven criminal proves that their reputation was a farce to begin with.

Burn 'em.

[mmonk]

12. The US doesn't have a prosecutable case against Assange.

[unkachuck]

13. option two....

....cheney will be dropping dead shortly from heart disease....we need Assange out there shining light on corrupt governments and institutions....

[NYMdaveNYI]

14. And it would be a very long, drawn out

extradition process for Cheney. He’d die during it.