The Sun - Julian Assange ARRESTED and dragged out of Ecuadorean Embassy in handcuffs by cops.
This is to be expected. I guarantee you the United States will seek extradition. Be careful what you ask for, Assange just might show how he got the Podesta emails and it wasn't from a hack.
Expect him to be extradited to Sweden as Britain promised Ecuador to not extradite him to a country having the death penalty. Sweden will then extradite him to the United States as they did not make that agreement. Congress will threaten Trump with impeachment for obstruction if Trump attempts to pardon Assange. Trump will NOT pardon Assange; but, Assange will not be convicted of hacking the DNC. Assange will not be convicted of treason in the United States as he is a publisher of news.
The actual indictment has just been unsealed and here it is.
UPDATE:
So the actual charge is of conspiring to collect and disseminate classified material. The actual action claimed to be done by Assange was that he attempted to hack a password. Oddly enough, Assange never did assist in hacking the password. In fact, there is no evidence that Assange made any attempt to hack the computers. All of that was done by Manning. The reason they are claiming conspiracy is to avoid charging Assange with publishing the information. It is a weak case. It also appears that the President of Ecuador lied, he said that England had agreed not to extradite Assange to a country that had the death penalty, what he meant was a country that would charge Assange with crime punishable by the death penalty. By charging Assange in this manner, the government avoids having to deal with the DNC Podesta emails or Assange's lawyers seeking discovery and forcing the Justice department from proving that the DNC was hacked.
Personally, I think it helps Assange to be extradited. He could not live in the embassy for the rest of his life. It has been reported that he faces five years in jail, heck, he has been in the embassy for seven. With Assange in the United States, he can be called before grand juries investigating the Trump Russia investigation and he can tell them how the DNC was not hacked; but, people leaked the information to him.
UPDATE 2:
By the way, I posted within minutes of Assange being arrested and have been searching every ten minutes for updates on YouTube. Interesting, videos from conservative sites have been blocked on YouTube almost immediately. They later get released, after an hour or so. I am talking about dozens and dozens of videos being blocked within minutes of being put on line. I have never seen this before. It is not for copyright infringement, Assange's arrest was filmed by Russian television and the same video is being used by all the mainstream media without permission I am sure.
UPDATE 3:
The media keeps saying that Assange is looking at up to 5 years for the current charges against him; but, this is misleading. IF the government can get him on the conspiracy charge then they don't have to treat him as a publisher and will charge him with additional charges for spying and publishing the classified documents and that will carry decades of jailtime.
