Julian Assange Charged by U.S. With Conspiracy to Hack a Government Computer
Andrew Napolitano calls him a "hero": Judge Andrew Napolitano: ‘Julian Assange is a hero’
If Assange is put on trial in the United States, it will be a fight between those who want to cover up and conceal government corruption and malfeasance - versus those who seek greater transparency in government and support the public's right to know.
LONDON — Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who released reams of secret documents that embarrassed the United States government, was arrested by the British police on Thursday at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where he had lived since 2012, after Ecuador withdrew the asylum it had granted him.
The Metropolitan Police said that Mr. Assange had been detained partly in connection with an extradition warrant filed by the authorities in the United States, where he could face of a charge of computer hacking, according to an American official, if he is extradited.
President Lenín Moreno of Ecuador said on Twitter that his country had decided to stop sheltering Mr. Assange after “his repeated violations to international conventions and daily-life protocols,” a decision that cleared the way for the British authorities to detain him.
The relationship between Mr. Assange and Ecuador has been a rocky one, even as it offered him refuge and even citizenship, and WikiLeaks said last Friday that Ecuador “already has an agreement with the UK for his arrest” and predicted that Mr. Assange would be expelled from the embassy “within ‘hours to days.’ ”
Andrew Napolitano calls him a "hero": Judge Andrew Napolitano: ‘Julian Assange is a hero’
“There’s no basis to arrest him in London for the sexual assault investigation in Sweden,” said Napolitano. “He apparently has been charged with something in the United States. We don't know. Because of this inadvertent release of a warrant for him. That is probably the true reason for his arrest. He will probably be extradited here. We will see the indictment. And we will probably have a show trial.”
If Assange is put on trial in the United States, it will be a fight between those who want to cover up and conceal government corruption and malfeasance - versus those who seek greater transparency in government and support the public's right to know.