Ongoing efforts by the Trump Administration to secure the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is facing more than a few questions, including Assange’s health after a long time in confinement.
What could be the most substantial legal challenge, however, is that the US case against Assange is built heavily around secret evidence. The legal argument they intend to use is being withheld in great measure from Assange and his legal team.
Providing a legal defense for Assange without access to the evidence is going to be a substantial challenge. The very fact that the US is withholding the evidence, which is not in keeping with US law, may well serve as a major line of defense in and of itself, however.
It can easily be argued that the US is acting in very bad faith in its attempt to acquire Assange, and trying to coast through the hearing on secret evidence. How the British government will handle this process still remains to be seen, but with the world watching, there will be major concern if Assange appears not to be given a fair trial.
It already appears that Assange is not being given a honest fair break . One of the only news services in the whole world that could always be relied on to be telling the truth . The United States including the Trump administration wants to lock him up and silence him forever . Trump promised to be different . but every day he is looking to be more like of the same group of leadership that has been lying about everything all along .
US government withholding key evidence…where have we seen this before.
“.with the world watching, there will be major concern if Assange appears not to be given a fair trial… ”
Give me a break. The US Deep State and ruling class — The Owners — don’t give a shit what the world thinks.
And the secret “evidence” … The Assange Dossier, just like the Steele Dossier.
Reagan’s Neocon CIA chief Wm Casey infamously said:
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
We’ve been in a post-truth world for a very long time already.
Endeavor to persevere.
There is no evidence to be secret.
Of course he will not have a fair trial;of course the US is in cahoots with the USA in its illegal actions against a person daring to tell the truth;of course the “land of the free” disregards its own laws. None of this is a surprise to honest observers.
LMAO “daring to tell the truth “? lol how easily propagandized sheeple are.
Do you have information that the rest of us don’t? Did you get it from CNN?
i see,you are one of the gullible. a simple research into the computer hacker ,would help your gullible brain matter see how you have been hoodwinked. but you go right ahead and do what the msm ,tv tells you to believe. after all,those who fall for these obvious distractions, such as you, are not too bright. smh.
What are you talking about, “the computer hacker?” If you were half as smart as you think you are you would know that there was no hack. The hack lie came out of the DNC as has been regurgitated by the MSM ad nauseum ever since.
sigh, its truly pathetic that commenters are unable to grasp what is said. hawkins calling himself ASSange was a known computer hacker. but then gullible programmed sheeple such as you don’t know this. so lets see,you believe the msm? lol lol pathetic.
He’s not “Hawkins calling himself Assange.” He’s “Assange, born Hopkins.” There’s a difference. It’s not a pseudonym, it’s a name change.
I’d be surprised if anyone who’s followed his career at all DIDN’T know he was a known computer hacker. His arrest and trial were covered extensively both at the time and retrospectively.
So, do you have any actual point other than “I want to believe I’m clever because I know Assange’s public history, including his name change and his arrest on hacking charges and can pretend that no one else does?”
its hawkins fruitcake. he started using his mom’s 2nd of 4 husbands name.. is there any point to your response? other than to prove how stupid you are? the majority of the gullible, also think ,thanks to msm propaganda, that ASSange/hawkins “founded” wikileaks. he did no such thing. and also call this govt patsy a “hero’ for doing nothing but what he was allowed to do. lol fools think these patsies, sneak around unknown to the govt. its hilarious.
I’m somewhat handicapped here in terms of not knowing whether English is a poorly learned second language for you, or whether you’re just an idiot.
its obvious the idiot is yourself,whom you project on to others.
The USA is no better than some tin pot dictatorship in this regard.
first of all hawkins is NOT THE FOUNDER OF WIKILEAKS! jeez. second point, wtf didn’t the govt prosecute him and his friends in 1991 for hacking the pentagon.? this is nothing but theater and distraction for the gullible.
Supreme court ruling; The Clara 102 U.S. 200 The maxim applies; quod non apparet non est.. the fact not appearing is presumed not to exist.