Assange will agree to US extradition in exchange for Manning ‘clemency’ - WikiLeaks

According to RT:

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would leave his Ecuadorian embassy refuge and accept extradition to the US if whistleblower Chelsea Manning was granted clemency, the media organization has suggested.

I thought Obama was already considering this. That is a bold move!



I'd love to say more, but a bit speechless.

Link

a reply to: Rosinitiate

Wow.

That gives me more respect for a guy who was fast loosing it in my eyes.

a reply to: Rosinitiate

Cool and bold move indeed, if true. Any source link?

ETA: thx for video

originally posted by: tothetenthpower
a reply to: Rosinitiate

Wow.

That gives me more respect for a guy who was fast loosing it in my eyes.

I'm still wrapping my head around it. On one hand you have a man putting his life on the line to free another person. Very heroic! And I agree, Manning should be let go.

On the other hand.....The line between Wikileaks, Russia and Trump is growing ever so thin.

a reply to: kloejen

yup, sorry, added above.

www.ibtimes.com...

It appears that Wikileaks tweeted the same...could be true.

a reply to: Rosinitiate

I wonder if Assange is willing to play ball against Russia now and get immunity himself after he's extradited.

He has a laundry list of sources that I'm sure America would be interested in.

~Tenth

a reply to: Rosinitiate

just one problem - its sweden who actually has an arrest warrant outstanding

originally posted by: ignorant_ape
a reply to: Rosinitiate

just one problem - its sweden who actually has an arrest warrant outstanding

Exactly, this isn't the first time he's said this. I like the guy but he knows he can say that and it not happen because its not even part of the circumstances.

a reply to: ignorant_ape

Sweden doesn't give a # about Snowden, they are acting on the behest of the US.

Anyways....

FBI has active criminal case against WikiLeaks’ Assange – court documents

www.rt.com...

a reply to: Rosinitiate

sigh - does the US have an arrest warrant ?

sweden does - why is that ?

originally posted by: ignorant_ape
a reply to: Rosinitiate

sigh - does the US have an arrest warrant ?

sweden does - why is that ?

Some fabricated rape charges wasn't it? Or something like that.

But more than one high ranking US official has said they would request extradition if they could get it from Ecuador, which they had said no anyway, so why bother with the warrant?

They damn well knew he wouldn't set foot in the US until some kind of agreement was made.

~Tenth

i know thsat large portions of ATS will lap this crap up - but hey try a little critical thinking

Q1 - why is assange in the ecuador embassy london ?

originally posted by: ignorant_ape
a reply to: Rosinitiate

sigh - does the US have an arrest warrant ?

sweden does - why is that ?

Sweden wants him for questioning on sexual impropriety. The US wants to drone strike him. Know your enemy.

a reply to: tothetenthpower

oh FFS - why do you believe that the rape charges are " fabricated " ??

i wikll spell it out for you

the entire ecuador embassy farce is because assange is despersate to avoid being sent to sweden

assange claims that this is because the swedes will turn him over to the US

the UK is more likley than sweden to process a US extraditiion request

now the farcical part - assange " offeres " to turn himself over to ther US authrorities - which is the EXACT outcome he sought to avoid by precipitsating the embassy farce

assange turning himself overr to the US directly - avoids sweden altogether

ergo - assange is more afraid of sweden than america

- thus assange is talking bollox

a reply to: Rosinitiate

He's just bored. And he knows the US will never give Manning clemency. Just grandstanding because he doesn't have anything better to do.

a reply to: ignorant_ape

The charges Assange is facing in Sweden were invented by Sweden to have a legal means to detain him, so that the US could get him extradited.

Assange doesn't play games. He's got a perfect track record so far.

Therefor, I'm inclined to take him seriously.

a reply to: ignorant_ape

the UK is more likley than sweden to process a US extraditiion request

They can't extradite him because he's technically in Ecuador. The UK didn't have anything to charge him with in order to extradite him.

I think he's ignoring the Swedish connection in all this because it's inconsequential. At least from the evidence I've seen, which isn't much, I don't see them being legitimate.

This is a conspiracy website after all.

You could be entirely correct. I just don't buy it.

~Tenth

a reply to: ColdWisdom

do you REALLY believe that ???

i am still waiting for the explaination of why not direct extradition UK >> US

sweden is an unessecary layer of complexity

a reply to: tothetenthpower

he was NOT under ecuadorian < sp ? > prrotection when he was trying every legal trick to avoid extradition to sweden

the UK authorities siezed his passport - so his ability to skip the country was limited

again i ask - why not DIRECT extradition UK >> USA ????

sweden = un-nessecary additional layer of complexity