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Re:Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation by nemo on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @06:19PM (#21579437)
There are no known extradition orders from the Obama DoJ, and the feds have claimed they didn't want to bother with him in the Holder era. To believe he would be extradited to the US requires Assange's claimed extradition threat to have been real, but there's not only no evidence, but some evidence that suggests there never was one.

The position that there never was a sealed extradition request can be falsified with evidence of one, it's just that there currently is no evidence.

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Re:Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation by stale2002 on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @10:31PM (#21580878)
Ok, but imagine an alternate universe where, if during the Holder era, there was a secret extradition order.

Would you imagine that what we are observing right now, would be any different than this hypothetical universe where a secret extradition order did indeed exist?

Is it really so hard to believe that such a hypothetical universe would almost certainly look exactly like the universe that we are in right now?

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