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Re:Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amend... by the_af on Thursday May 23, 2019 @05:14PM (#19996041)
For context: Ecuador changed governments in between. While the current president was officially the continuation of the previous one (the one who granted Assange asylum), in effect he turned soon after being elected, to the point the prior president considers him a traitor to all he initially stood for.

So you must give credit to the prior government, not the current one.

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Re:Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amend... by cwkoss on Thursday May 23, 2019 @08:15PM (#19997307)
I wonder if any external foreign forces played a role in that Ecuadorian election...
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Re:Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amend... by bonestamp2 on Thursday May 23, 2019 @11:10PM (#19998150)
/s
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Re:Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amend... by totalZero on Saturday May 25, 2019 @06:46PM (#20011962)
This goes deeper than Correa vs Moreno.

(A) Ecuador received a $4.2B loan from the US-dominated IMF, which was approved around the same time Assange was dragged out of the embassy, and

(B) President Moreno was caught up in the INA Papers scandal where many personal photos, messages, and documents were published, and Moreno accused Assange of involvement shortly before evicting Assange.

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Re:Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amend... by auiya on Friday May 24, 2019 @11:02AM (#20002232)
The executive branch of the US government did as well. Drastically. The opinion of the US Justice department through each of those two wildly different presidents however, did not change.
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Re:Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amend... by the_af on Friday May 24, 2019 @11:44AM (#20002716)
The difference is that before the election, Lenin Moreno was seen as the successor of Rafael Correa (unlike the Trump and Obama situation). Correa's grant of asylum to Assange was seen as a political/ideological stand, and his successor was expected to continue it. When Moreno got elected he reverted enough of Correa's policies that the latter considers him a traitor [1]. That was unexpected.

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[1] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/11/rafael-corr...

> "“The greatest traitor in Ecuadorian and Latin American history, Lenin Moreno, allowed the British police to enter our embassy in London to arrest Assange,” Mr. Correa tweeted. “Moreno is a corrupt man, but what he has done is a crime that humanity will never forget.”

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