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Bolivia Demands Assange Apologize For Deliberately False Leaks To the US

Posted by timothy on from the well-it's-not-swatting-if-it's-the-usaf dept.

Rei writes In 2013, during Edward Snowden's brief and chaotic search for asylum that ultimately landed him in Russia, the US faced criticism for handing information to various European nations that Bolivian president Evo Morales was smuggling him out of Russia, leading to the grounding of his flight. In a new twist, in the documentary Terminal F about this time period, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange admitted that he was the one who deliberately leaked the fake information to the US government. Bolivia has been none too pleased with this news and is now demanding that Assange apologize for putting their president's life at risk.

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  1. Shows just how far the U.S. will go to get him by NotDrWho · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If they'll forcibly ground the Presidential plane from a sizable country, do you really think they wouldn't stoop to trumping up some rape charges and put a little pressure on Sweden too?

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    SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
  2. Re:hes not the one to blame. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And presidents have diplomatic immunity. Just as monarchs do (so why you brought it up is anyone's guess). It's why your president or senators can travel in many places without being kidnapped to face war crime tribunals.

    PART OF that soverign immunity is the agreement to accord the laws of international agreement.

    The drug enforcement agencies have large powers by international agreement. If a country decided to arrest all the DEA officers for drug offences the USA would go, literally, ballistic. Nuclear, even.