Ecuador Acknowledges Limiting Julian Assange's Web Access (reuters.com)

Alexandra Valencia, reporting for Reuters: Ecuador's government acknowledged on Tuesday it had partly restricted internet access for Julian Assange, the founder of anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks who has lived in the South American country's London embassy since mid-2012. WikiLeaks said Assange lost connectivity on Sunday, sparking speculation Ecuador might have been pressured by the United States due to the group's publication of hacked material linked to U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. In a statement, Ecuador's leftist government said WikiLeaks' decision to publish documents impacting the U.S. election campaign was entirely its own responsibility, and the South American country did not cede to pressure from other nations. "In that respect, Ecuador, exercising its sovereign right, has temporarily restricted access to part of its communications systems in its UK Embassy," it added in a statement. "The Ecuador government respects the principle of non-intervention in other countries' affairs, it does not meddle in election processes underway, nor does it support any candidate specially."

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Re:Mobile phone access?

[Richard_at_work]

He isn't in Ecuador, he's in a flat in London - whether the Ecuadorian Embassy allow him an alternative method of access is debatable at this point, they don't have to allow him the use of a mobile phone or his own line (the issue seems to be with with his actions, not with the fact that they are being done over an Ecuadorian-linked internet connection) and they can ask him to leave if he has an issue with that.

Re:And yet

[Anonymous Coward]

You seem unaware that there is now a reasonably strong chain that links Clintons campaign to these faked paedophile allegations (see reddit wikileaks) and an attempt to entrap Assange with a million dollar bribe through a couple of shell companies connecting back to her camp. It appears it was a possibly criminal Democratic conspiracy/fraud/libel', that got quickly sprung

Here's a helpful infographic to connect the dots..
https://i.imgur.com/s27EVHS.jpg

http://www.inquisitr.com/3609216/julian-assange-reportedly-being-investigated-for-alleged-online-sexual-molestation-of-8-year-old-girl/

Assange is a twat, but his antipathy towards Clinton is perhaps understandable when there are reports that Clinton discussed assassinating him back in 2010 (and didn't leave the impression she was joking)

Both candidates are appalling. Trump is an ill-disciplined narcissistic dickhead (though has at least proposed some positive reform - like term limits). But Clinton appears to be a nasty sociopath, and has so much unethical immoral history (going back decades), and what seems like total disregard for the rule of law - from seeming threats to Bills victims' to whitewater, to server shennanigans, to (in last 2 days) filmed admissions from her team about paying people to incite violence at Trump rallies and rig voting. Not really surprising in someone who has been in the game so long and has put up with marriage to Bill to give her the shot at the big chair, but it simply can't be tolerated in a President - even if she might otherwise be a relatively safe pair of hands. Option 3 please.

Re: And yet

[Jodka]

from parent post:

Preventing the distribution of information that Hillary Clinton made speeches where she said in private the same things as she said in public? ..."

from one of Hillary Clinton's paid Wall Street speeches:

Clinton: “But If Everybody's Watching, You Know, All Of The Back Room Discussions And The Deals, You Know, Then People Get A Little Nervous, To Say The Least. So, You Need Both A Public And A Private Position.” You just have to sort of figure out how to -- getting back to that word, "balance" -- how to balance the public and the private efforts that are necessary to be successful, politically, and that's not just a comment about today.

Not only does Hillary Clinton advocate in private paid meetings to Wall Street bankers policies opposed her own public positions, she confesses in one of those meetings that she does. The contradictions between her public statements and private statements made to Wall Street bankers are why she suppressed the release of transcripts or recordings of those paid speeches during the primary and why their release by Wikileaks has been politically damaging to her.

Re:And yet

[jbwolfe]

She will sleep comfortably while you are begging for help to save your life

You're likely just echoing conservative dogma about "Benghazigate". Do you get you get your news from any sources other that Fox? Not to diminish the tragedy, but the Obama administration's errors here (in actuality, lower level security personnel in the State Dept. rather than Clinton directly though she accepted responsibility as Sec.) was in its flawed strategic decisions regarding the size of the ambassadorial mission there and what actions to take in light of the decreasing stability. To portray Clinton as slumbering comfortably while her charges were begging for help is patently false. Further, conservative efforts to discredit Clinton through endless Benghazi hearings are disingenuous, unceasing and utterly wasteful, but shows them as the true exploiters of the tragedy. Ronald Reagan's Benghazi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombings was not politicized at all and it happened six months after the embassy there was bombed.

If there is a rule or a law, she will break it without a moments hesitation if she perceives the benefit in added power, money or prestige outweighs the risks.

Opinion stated as fact. Please support with evidence... BTW, factually speaking, Trump has boasted of sexual assault and is busy right now planting the seeds of insurrection by absurdly claiming the election is"rigged"- sounds like treason (the crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government) to me. Tell me who's lawless again.

ask yourself what would it be like if she had the powers of Presidential Pardon and Executive Privilege?

Sorry, too busy pondering what would happen if Trump were CIC. Didn't he say he would carpet bomb ISIS and steal the oil? He knows more about ISIS than "tha generals". K then, Like I said,: too busy pondering Armageddon under Trump....