Reply #4: The US State Dpt is using everything it has to get Assange [View All]

[social_critic]

I think it would be pretty naive to assume they wouldn't use every contact and means they got to get to Assange. And the right wing Cuban community is going to deliver whatever services it can to keep in good terms with the US government, so they can preserve the embargo and the levers they want to have over change in Cuba.

I read the Latin American press in Spanish, and it's interesting to see the editorial slant, the right wing media has come down on the side of the US State Dpt, and are willing to distort the truth to shape their readers' minds. This they do because they too want to make sure they are seen by the US State Dpt as loyal supporters. And going after Assange doesn't really cost them much anyway.

The left wing media, on the other hand, uses the leaked information to attack the US in a fairly mindless fashion - as if anything in the released cables was unexpected. The only juicy tidbit I read was the one about Cristina being bi-polar, and the French guy saying he thought Chavez was crazy. But even that was just good for a good laugh.