An Anonymous US Law Enforcement Officer Claims US Wouldn't Arrest Julian Assange

McGruber writes "The Washington Post reports that 'Federal prosecutors have not filed a sealed indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, despite persistent rumors that a nearly three-year grand jury investigation into him and his organization had secretly led to charges, according to senior law enforcement sources. ... "Nothing has occurred so far," said one law enforcement official with knowledge of the case. "If Assange came to the U.S. today, he would not be arrested. But I can't predict what's going to happen. He might be in six months." The law enforcement official providing this assurance chose to remain anonymous.'"

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Sure...

[Anonymous Coward]

We believe you.

Re:Sure...

[Zemran]

"Would you say that was unjustified?"

Yes, because that made it murder. If they were not ready to give him a trial they should not have gone after him. You accept that he is the evil nemesis only because the people that made billions from a war, told you he was. Without that fair trial, he was an innocent man and shooting him was murder. He was unarmed when they entered his bedroom, there was no need or reason to shoot him. They should have given him a fair trial so that the world could see the man to be who they claim he was. Now it all looks like a lie.

Re:Sure...

[Smauler]

Everyone knows he deserved to die is the anti-judicial refrain. I personally am happy he is dead, but there was no justice involved. The government killing people and imprisoning people without a fair and open trial is fucking immoral, no matter what anyone says.

Re:Sure...

[Rakhar]

"but there was no justice involved"

As a US veteran I actually got teary eyed when I saw the newspaper headlines after Osama was killed with the President saying that "Justice has been served". The President of the United States, calling that justice. The country we have now and the one I enlisted to defend are not the same country.

The older I get, the harder I find it to be truly patriotic.

I could imagine a truth buried behind this

[dkleinsc]

They might not arrest him. They might just shoot him.

Re:I could imagine a truth buried behind this

[Mr. Slippery]

The Authorization for Use of Military Force is pretty clear about who the US is at war with.

No, it's not. War is a state that exists between two sovereign nations or putative nations. It is not a state that exists between a nation and criminal gang.

Nobody seems to be confused about who the war was against during the "war against fascism" between 1939-1945, but the "war against terror" from 2001-2013 seems to "baffle" people

We were not at war with an abstract concept like "fascism" during WWII, we were at war with Germany, Japan, and Italy; when the governments of those nations signed surrender papers the state of war ended.

Conveniently, there is no government to surrender in the "war" (so-called) on terror. We get to always be at "war" with terror.

Those treaties allow al Qaida members to be held as enemy combatants and tried before military commissions if applicable.

Not quite. Accused members of the criminal organization Al Qaida are entitled to the same civilian trials as any other criminal defendants, unless they were captured on the battlefield while engaging in combat. In that case they are combatants and are either prisoners of war or unlawful combatants; they are entitled to the presumption of POW status until their status has been determined by "a competent tribunal". But the U.S. doesn't get to say "we know, we just *know* you're an Al Qaida member!"

Cops Lie, Film @ 11

[flyneye]

You can't believe a damn thing anyone in law enforcement says.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08fZQWjDVKE
Never could, no point in starting any time soon.
Makes good family viewing. Especially your kids.

Re:Cops Lie, Film @ 11

[flyneye]

My mind goes farther and farther back in time.
When and where are you talking about? They were lying shit in the 70s and I presume the 60s from stories I hear. Beyond that the history books aren't kind either. I guess television always showed fictitious nice cops. I suppose the highway patrolmen touring the elementary school safety circuit are probably nice guys, but, those are the ones they send on tour. I'm fairly loaded with psych case histories and results of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory battery of tests of cops over the last 30 years or so in my area. They're fairly simple, power hungry and can have some pretty major deviations and will still be hired. That's the profile you get, here and elsewhere. As long as you're no brainiac, have no record and can read and write,you can be a real nut job and still be a cop fresh out of training and believe me, the majority do. The worst of them trickle down to the podunk towns after and if they get fired from urban areas.
Here in my area of the state, there are 3 separate cases of incarcerating officers sexually assaulting suspects this year alone. There is also a regional rash THIS YEAR of 6 cases of suspects fleeing, jumping in ponds and drowning. Not years previous, just this year.This is a two county area I'm speaking of.
We have two officers up for murder and one, a police trainer, convicted of murdering his wife and committing arson to cover it up. There aren't even a million people here. This is only the headline stuff too. Soooo much more.
It ain't 9-11 anymore, the polish wore off and all we have left is punks with badges all the way up to Federal levels.

Also

[SB9876]

The official went on to say that he totally heard that the Justice department has a big basket of puppies waiting in the office to give to Julian [Assange] if he just drops by by next week.

Why would he be arrested?

[BringsApples]

He wouldn't be arrested, they don't have to do that in America anymore - they "detain" you.

Re:I rather believe in Santa Claus

[mwvdlee]

Hey Julian, it's even been leaked by an anonymous source. You're into that kind of stuff, right?