Ecuador Wanted To Make Julian Assange a Diplomat and Send Him To Moscow (arstechnica.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Sunday September 23, 2018 @02:14AM from the hot-potato dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Last year, Ecuador attempted to deputize WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as one of its own diplomats and send him to Russia, according to a Friday report by Reuters. Citing an "Ecuadorian government document," which the news agency did not publish, Assange apparently was briefly granted a "special designation" to act as one of its diplomats, a privilege normally granted to the president for political allies. However, that status was then withdrawn when the United Kingdom objected. The Associated Press reported earlier in the week that newly-leaked documents showed that Assange sought a Russian visa back in 2010. WikiLeaks has vehemently denied that Assange did so.

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Substantive = Weasel Word by Anonymous Coward · 2018-09-23 04:01 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Substantive = Weasel Word.
Of course there was criminal activity. Unquestionably. Deletion of emails to avoid accountability and hide information from her superiors: The American People.
If you or I did what HC did and admitted to, we would be in federal prison.
She is an unindicted criminal conspirator, plain and simple.