Posted on 11/29/2010 6:55:32 PM PST by markomalley
If WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange needs a home, Ecuador's deputy foreign minister says this Andean nation is happy to provide one.
The 39-year-old Australian, who has incensed and embarrassed Washington with the release by his online whistle-blowing organization of hundreds of sensitive diplomatic cables, had sought residency and a work permit in Sweden.
But after the release by WikiLeaks beginning in late July of thousands of sensitive documents from the Iraq and Afghan wars, a Swedish court ordered him detained for questioning on sexual assault allegations - claims Assange denies and calls part of a smear campaign.
Assange, who keeps his whereabouts secret and moves around a lot, could also face legal complications at home. Australia's attorney general said Monday that it was studying whether he'd broken any laws there.
In contrast to the potential hostility from U.S. allies, leftist-run Ecuador provided Assange with an invitation Monday.
Deputy Foreign Minister Kintto Lucas said in audio posted online by the EcuadorInmediato news site that "we are open to giving him residence in Ecuador, without any kind of trouble and without any kind of conditions."
"We think it would be important not only to converse with him but to listen to him," Lucas added, saying Ecuador wanted to invite Assange to "freely expound" and see what it's like in "friendly countries."
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Where is Jason Bourne when we need him?
We’ve got a nice place for him in Gitmo... tropical paradise that it is...
He is working as a car mechanic, last seen working on the underside of Sir Julian's auto.
I think Assange has a mysterious illness in his future.
For about 2 weeks prior to his execution.
Intel guy on FoxNews Hannity (sorry...didn’t catch his name) commented tonight that the U.S. Gov’t could have easily shut down the Wiki website prior to this disclosure but for some reason did not. Things that make you go hmmmmm......
Uh, in Ecuador, not exactly the security capital of the world, it might be easier for something unpleasantly fatal to happen to him. Just sayin’....
Its just amazing that Ecuador beat Venezuela to it.
Just treein’ a ‘coon.
Is there a Cliff’s Notes version of this sodomite scoundrel’s criminal disclosures?
Try this. I'm not well versed in links, so you may have to copy and paste. Sorry.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/29/wikileaks-embassy-cables-key-points?intcmp=239
“the U.S. Gov’t could have easily shut down the Wiki website prior to this disclosure but for some reason did not. Things that make you go hmmmmm......”
disinformation?
Intel guy didn't know what he is talking about.
The main Wikileaks servers are in Sweden. There are KNOWN mirrors in the US and Switzerland. The actual data is spread everywhere.
The most the US might have been able to do is get the primary Wikileaks domains (wikileaks.com/net/org/us/etc.) redirected to another site, like ICE did with some sites hawking counterfeit goods recently.
But, the mirrors would have simply popped up somewhere else. And since multiple media organizations already had access to the data, it was a moot point.
How come our government can shut down the websites of companies that sell fake Gucci handbags, but can’t shut this site down?
To hell with shutting the *site* down.Shut its *staff* down...with extreme prejudice.
“Wikileaks embassy cables: the key points at a glance”
Thank you.
“I think Assange has a mysterious illness in his future.”
I suspect that he’ll “accidentally” slip and fall in his bathroom one day.
before he gets to switzerland...before Holder gets to switzerland????? I really didn’t think holder had the nerve....
It probably wont be the U.S. that does it. Think about all the people who are not happy about these leaks and don’t have any constraints on their power...kings, princes, despots, and dictators. Not to mention the folks on the lower end of the scale that will be in hot water and want revenge.
No all Oblama would be willing to do is set him up as a rapist in a lame attempt to discredit.
I keep thinking about what would have happened in my Dad’s day during the cold war...they would have never let it get this far. Assange would have met a bullet in the head and little snit Manning would have OD’d in a bathhouse.
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