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Re:Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amend... by ppod on Thursday May 23, 2019 @05:14PM (#19996036)
There's a new leader in Ecuador, more US friendly, and they leaned on him with the IMF --- they got a huge loan just as they gave him up. It does seem that he is a bit of an asshole, but I don't think it's conspiratorial to think there's more to it than that.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ecuador-imf/ecuador-inks-...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ecuador-jilted-assange-as-it-so...

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Re:Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amend... by throwaway743 on Thursday May 23, 2019 @06:49PM (#19996803)
This, and apparently he released a bunch of documents proving financial corruption among him and his friends/family.
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Re:Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amend... by monocasa on Thursday May 23, 2019 @09:26PM (#19997681)
He didn't. Whoever's in charge of the WikiLeaks twitter had retweeted a news story about the leak (which was leaked by a third party).
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