Dartz Wrote:Speaking of charges, according to The Register, Assange's lawyer expects charges will be brought against him under the US' Espionage Act.Unlikely. This is far more a case of lawyer throwing stuff out to muddy things up. I suspect however if Assange ever visits the U.S. in the future he's more than likely to face arrest and face federal charges of some sort. He's far more likely to get killed when and if he ever releases something embarrassing to the Russian Government. Anybody recall that incident in England involving a former Russian agent and radioactive thallium in a cup of tea? See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6179074.stm
Is that even possible? Considering Assange technically didn't commit any crime within US jurisdiction. Unless somebody finds a loophole with the information being hosted on an Amazon server within the States and tries to push that.
I'm admittedly not a fan of Assange and wikileaks. I can support the idea in abstract however the way Assange and wikileaks have behaved at times has pretty much lost them my support. I particularly was offended by the way they edited and titled the video of the incident in Iraq in which a Reuters photographer and reporter who got killed along with a bunch of insurgentstoting AK 47s and a RPG-7 by an AH-64. If there was one thing I did learn growing up in Guatemala during the 80s was don't do things that will from a distance make a soldier think you are a potential threat and the reporters in question did that in spades.
--Werehawk--
My mom's brief take on upcoming Guatemalan Elections "In last throes of preelection activities. Much loudspeaker vote pleading."