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>Despite all the crap he said, being extradited to Sweden would have made extradition to the US less likely He was called crazy for stating that it was a ruse
by pytester 7y ago
>Despite all the crap he said, being extradited to Sweden would have made extradition to the US less likely
He was called crazy for stating that it was a ruse to get him into the hands of the US. Given that A) he had access to better legal advice than is generally dispensed by random strangers on the internet and B) the part about the US trying to snare him in spite of multiple denials ended up being 100% true I'm inclined to believe that he was probably on the mark.
- lawnchair_larry 7y agoand C) https://www.hrw.org/news/2006/11/09/sweden-violated-torture-ban-cia-rendition https://www.hrw.org/news/2006/11/09/sweden-violated-torture-...
- LiquidSky 7y ago>He was called crazy for stating that it was a ruse to get him into the hands of the US. And he was crazy. Fleeing to the UK, America's staunches ally with a long history of cooperation with US law enforcement, especially in cases of extradition, in order to avoid possible extradition in Sweden is simply not sane. Even taking the assumptions you're working with, that the Sweden charges were a ruse to allow Assange to be extradited, the argument fails because Assange fled this supposed conspiracy to a jurisdiction that is 100% guaranteed to cooperate in extraditing him to the US. >he had access to better legal advice than is generally dispensed by random strangers on the internet Considering the predicament his apparently genius legal counsel's advice put him in over the last decade, I'd say that's not a given at all. It seems much more like he's acting out of panic and desperation rather than some carefully-crafted legal strategy.
- aaron_m04 7y agoHe fled to the Ecuadorian embassy in the UK. Big difference.
- TazeTSchnitzel 7y agoIf the US was going to fabricate allegations against him, why in Sweden and not in the UK?