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originally posted by: JBurns
The use of sex and sex-related matters in intelligence work is as old as...well, its old
Maybe, like many celebrities, he could be a sexual predator and has allowed these conspiracies to build up because it helps his cause.
Anyway. The OPs source says the Ecuadorian consulate is surrounded by police, yet the police presence was withdrawn some time ago. I occasionally walk past the consulate and there's nothing there. It's a waste of money to police him. It's well known that Assange will be arrested if he leaves the consulate, as the warrant for his criminal offence of skipping bail in England is still valid.
He could walk to the pub and have a few beers before the police turned up to arrest him, but he's probably more afraid his Ecuadorian hosts would lock the door and change the locks if he sneaked out!
originally posted by: JBurns
Embassy life is no life at all.... at least when you can't leave.
Once he's returned to the US,
Ah, but he can leave. He's in the consulate voluntarily.
That's not certain, even if the US try to make that happen. The UK-US extradition process has frustrated the Americans by not working in their favour, and as the process will be widely reported and transparent we can all sit and be armchair judges.
Assange's greatest fear is being deported to his adopted Ecuador, as I cannot imagine his UK visa is valid anymore.
More at: www.apnews.com...
LONDON (AP) — The Latest on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (all times local):
Britain’s foreign secretary says Julian Assange is a “free man” and can leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London whenever he chooses.
On Thursday, tweets from WikiLeaks quoted what it said were high-level sources saying that Julian Assange could be kicked out of the building within “hours to days.”
Ecuador’s foreign ministry issued a statement saying it wouldn’t comment on what it called “rumors, theories or conjectures.”
British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said Assange “can leave that embassy whenever he wants to, so we want the situation resolved as quickly as possible.”
Assange hasn’t left the embassy since August 2012.