{"id":35625,"date":"2018-06-29T07:12:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T12:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35625"},"modified":"2018-06-29T07:12:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T12:12:47","slug":"white-house-us-ecuador-coordinating-about-future-of-assange-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35625","title":{"rendered":"White House: US, Ecuador Coordinating About Future Of Assange\u00a0Asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"

White House: US, Ecuador Coordinating About Future Of Assange\u00a0Asylum<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The agenda of the United States government to extradite WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange is kind of like Israel\u2019s nuclear arsenal: everyone knows it exists, but government officials refuse to openly confirm it. US Attorney General Jeff Sessions\u00a0has admitted<\/a> that Assange\u2019s arrest is a priority, President Trump has said he\u2019d support Sessions<\/a> in taking that action, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has labeled<\/a> WikiLeaks a \u201chostile non-state intelligence service,\u201d and the ranking Democrat in the US House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff has stated<\/a> that he plans on questioning Assange \u201cwhen he is in US custody.\u201d But so far none have come right out and admitted that there is an extradition request for Assange or what the legal basis for it might be.<\/p>\n

Unlike Israel\u2019s nukes, however, you\u2019ll still see empire loyalists pretending that they don\u2019t believe there\u2019s an agenda to extradite Assange. You\u2019ll often see social media accounts patrolling all posts about Julian Assange any time he\u2019s in the news, stating in remarkably uniform language<\/a> that Assange is free to leave the embassy whenever he wants because there is no extradition agenda. To be clear, these people do not believe what they are saying; nobody actually believes that Assange is choosing to remain in effective solitary confinement because it\u2019s his idea of a fun time. But there are individuals with a vested interest in reinforcing the narrative that the US isn\u2019t the sort of government that would try to imprison a journalist for telling the truth.<\/p>\n

It is this false narrative manipulation which makes it essential to document such events as ten Democratic Senators writing a letter to Vice President Mike Pence<\/a> demanding that he confront Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno about continuing to give political asylum to Assange.<\/p>\n

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White House: US, Ecuador Coordinating About Future Of Assange\u00a0Asylum The agenda of the United States government to extradite WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange is kind of like Israel\u2019s nuclear arsenal: everyone knows it exists, but government officials refuse to openly confirm it. US Attorney General Jeff Sessions\u00a0has admitted that Assange\u2019s arrest is a priority, President Trump […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[17039,1368,2001,827,880],"class_list":["post-35625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-eduador","tag-julian-assange","tag-united-states","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35626,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35625\/revisions\/35626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}