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In reply to the discussion: Wikileaks Greatest Hits: Steve Jobs' HIV test report [View all]grantcart
(53,061 posts)my point.
But your anger at Assange makes you blind to the larger point of misuse of prosecution.
If Sweden wants to have him to try him on the rape charges they could have him tomorrow.
If they want to participate on a bait and switch and send him to some other country (and I don't think that it would be the US) then Ecuador will protect him.
Glennwald demolishes the legal nonsense here;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/24/new-statesman-error-assange-swedish-extradition
Now here is the fundamental problem with your post.
Assange is not the leaker, he is the publisher.
Manning is the leaker and should be prosecutede. Assange is the publisher. Just like the NYT in the Pentagon Papers.
He didn't take the secrets he received them. Not a crime in the US with our First Ammendment.
I dislike the guy but if you want somebody to step forward the next time there is a build up to a war and you want secrets out then that means sometimes you have to stand up for the point of law with people you don't like.
If the US has a case against him then convene a grand jury and get an indictment, which they have not.
Don't participate in some bait and switch phony prosecution where he ends up in sume Mubarak like country.