Julian Assange: Home Secretary Signs US Extradition Request

Re:Julian Assange: Home Secretary Signs US Extradition Request by thatoneuser on Thursday June 13, 2019 @03:34PM (#20177922)

If we're going to base his guilt off of the similarity in his actions to Manning then remember that Manning was pardoned. It would be pretty piss poor precedence to ignore that and charge assange in a different light.

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Re:Julian Assange: Home Secretary Signs US Extradition Request by plugger on Thursday June 13, 2019 @09:28PM (#20179962)

Let's not forget that Manning's sentence was commuted by Obama (which technically isn't a pardon) in part because Assange stated on twitter that if Obama granted Chelsea clemency then he'd submit himself to US extradition. Obama called his bluff and Assange reneged on his offer.

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Re:Julian Assange: Home Secretary Signs US Extradition Request by astine on Thursday June 13, 2019 @04:20PM (#20178232)

Manning was convicted. Pardons are not a statement of guilt or non-guilt but a political tool. Assange might yet be pardoned, but I'd be surprised.

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