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by The Associated Press
June 22, 2012, 04:29 pm ET
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) President Rafael Correa's objections to what he deems American interventionism in Latin America and his delight in Julian Assange's massive uncorking of U.S. secrets appear to have persuaded the WikiLeaks chief that Ecuador offers his best shot at avoiding extradition to Sweden ...
Correa was cagey on Thursday night, telling reporters that Ecuador was consulting with the other governments involved ...
Correa has also expelled three U.S. diplomats whom he considered threats, including an ambassador who suggested in one of the more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables that WikiLeaks laid bare that Correa was deliberately overlooking high-level police corruption ...
"This is a UK-Ecuador-Sweden issue," U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Wednesday. "We want to see justice served; let's leave it at that" ...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=155591800
Enrique
(27,461 posts)my new favorite Wikileaks quote.
IamK
(956 posts)you have to look.at the greater good... Collateral damage is not a big deal...
Tarheel_Dem
(31,235 posts)reprehensible sexual predators. {allegedly}.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)The U.S. State Department wants "justice". Since when?