From James Joyner in Outside the Beltway:
The Feds famously got notorious mobster Al Capone on tax evasion charges. Will WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange be done in by sex crimes?
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I have no knowledge about Assange’s sex life beyond those detailed above and wish I didn’t know that much. It is worth noting, however, that Sweden issued an arrest warrant for Assange back in August and then promptly withdrew the charges the same day. As I wrote at the time, “while I view Assange as substantially lower than pond scum, this story is incredibly murky. While I’m happy to see him discredited and silenced, bogus rape charges are beyond the pale.” Neither opinion has changed.
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It warms my heart to see academics speak from outside what Dr warren Farrel terms.."the lace curtain".
It's hard for me to see how Assange could be thought of as "lower than pond scum" when nothing that he has made public appears to be endangering anyone.
It's a strange pass we're at where the truth has become such a precious commodity that any small share of it is treated as dangerous.
From my viewpoint, the worst he could be accused of is betraying confidences. When one considers the public interest, that objection seems no more material than a similar argument directed at the media in general - and their failure to adequately cover a major military campaign spanning many years is a scandal in itself.
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