WikiLeaks' Assange backpedals on extradition promise

[RandySF]

Self-exiled WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is backpedaling on an offer to accept extradition to the United States, a lawyer representing him has told reporters.

Last week, Assange said through WikiLeaks that if President Obama granted clemency to Manning, a soldier convicted of sharing secrets with WikiLeaks, he would leave his exile home at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and return to the United States.

But a lawyer for Assange says Assange wanted Manning released immediately. President Obama directed that Manning be released in May.

"Mr. Assange had called for Chelsea Manning to receive clemency and be released immediately," lawyer Barry Pollack told The Hill via an e-mail. "Mr. Assange welcomes the announcement that Ms. Manning's sentence will be reduced and she will be released in May, but this is well short of what he sought.



http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/01/18/reports-wikileaks-assange-backpedals-extradition-promise/96751106/

[dalton99a]

1. Shocking.

[randome]

2. He CAN'T return to the United States since it's Sweden and the U.K. that have charges against him!

More mealy-mouthed buffoonery from another Trump-worshiper.
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[DetlefK]

4. Trying to bury those pesky rape-allegations with other news.

If he's worried that Sweden will extradite him to the US, why is he talking to the US and not Sweden???

[uponit7771]

3. Obama punks Assange, shows how much of a bullshit outfit wikileaks is