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Eugene

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Sat Apr 22, 2017, 05:26 PM Apr 2017

As US prioritises Julian Assange arrest, UK hints Sweden comes first

Source: The Guardian

As US prioritises Julian Assange arrest, UK hints Sweden comes first

If WikiLeaks founder were to leave Ecuadorian embassy,
two countries would have competing extradition claims


Alan Travis, Esther Addley and David Smith
Friday 21 April 2017 19.21 BST

Sweden’s existing warrant to extradite Julian Assange over a sexual assault allegation would be the first consideration for the British government if the Australian were to leave the Ecuadorean embassy, Home Office sources have indicated.

The US attorney general, Jeff Sessions, said on Thursday that the arrest of the WikiLeaks founder was now a “priority”. US federal prosecutors were understood to be considering bringing charges against Assange over a number of the website’s publications since 2010, US media reported, which could potentially lead to a second extradition request for Assange, from Washington.

Were that to happen, the question of which warrant would then take priority - from Sweden or the US - would then come into play.

However the British authorities stressed the UK had an existing legal obligation to extradite Assange to Sweden under the European arrest warrant. The Home Office never confirms whether an extradition request has been made or received until the person in question has been arrested, the source indicated – this is currently impossible while Assange remains in the embassy, where he was granted asylum in 2012.

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As US prioritises Julian Assange arrest, UK hints Sweden comes first (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2017 OP
Wonder if .... LenaBaby61 Apr 2017 #1

LenaBaby61

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1. Wonder if ....
Sat Apr 22, 2017, 07:52 PM
Apr 2017

Assange will see many more moons, because he also allegedly has some "interesting" intel on the GOP as well.

As we remember, tRumputin & other GOP treasonists were having a serious love affair with Assange when he was out there WikiLeking stolen emails from the DNC which were used to smear Hillary Clinton etc. during last years General Elections. On the campaign trail, you couldn hear tRumputin struggle-reading from tex & saying that he loved WikiLeaks, and that WikiLeaks was his friend. Same goes for Mike Pompeo, beauregard & others in the cabal, because Assange was trying to smear Hillary.

So fast forward to April 2017, tRumputin's been installed into the White House thanks in some part to Assange. But now, former lover and now head of the CIA, Mike Pompeo says that WikiLeaks (Assange) "Is a non-state, hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors, like Russia" beauguard also wants a piece of evil old Assange, and his WikiLeaks benefactor tRumputin said it's fine with him if Assange is gone after and tried

I wonder what Assange thinks of his former "lover" Mike Pompeo et al. Humm, I wonder if Assange gets mad enough to want to show all he has on the GOP (That's IF he's not back in Sweden being tried on rape charges first), since it appears that tRumputin, beauguard, Mike & the cabal have turned on HIM?

When "bending over" and kissing the wide behind of tRumputin and the cabal goes WRONG.

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