A growing number of Congressmen and Senators, primarily led by Senator Ron Wyden
In a not unrelated development, many of the weaknesses in trade agreements have been exposed by Julian Assange and Wikileaks. Assange created a sort of pants-around-the-ankles embarrassment to governments worldwide. Even so, as yet there seems to be no evidence of anything that would approach the charges of "treason' and/or "terrorism' that the U.S. Government supposedly has awaiting his expected extradition from Sweden. Assange stands to be executed or disappeared into prison for life, should that extradition take place.
The purpose of course is to chill dissent and protect the power structure, which is always the international purpose of closing down rather than opening transparency. But by our own government? Surely not.
Still, the late president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel, South African Nelson Mandella and Burmese dissident Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (a Nobel Peace laureate) would all have understood the current threat to Assange and its origins. So there's much at stake in San Diego and my guess is that Mr. Obama will have his way.
Whether that will hurt or help his reelection, who can tell?
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