U.K. Court: Julian Assange Can Be Extradited To The U.S. By MSNBC

There’s some breaking news just into us here. London’s High Court ruled moments ago, that WikiLeaks founder. Julian Assange can be extradited to the United States to face Espionage charges the decision over tuner, turns a ruling earlier, this year that Assange could not be extradited due to his mental. Health science. Faces 18 counts here in the US after Wikileaks released in 2010, troves of confidential, United States, military records and diplomatic cables. Join us. Now, for

From London, NBC News, senior International correspondent, Keir Simmons care. Good morning. It’s good to see you. So, what does this mean for Julian Assange? Now?

I really well. Julian Assange. Legal team is saying that they will appeal this appeal in the British high court. I think it does mean though that it is much more likely that he will appear in a court there in the u.s. Possibly as soon as next year, you know, Willie there is so much history to the Julian. Assange story. Now, you have the 250,000 diplomatic cables that were leaked by Judy assange’s, Wikileaks. You have that engagement with the Russian.

Tree intelligence at the gr. You to leak. Those lurid lurid conspiracy theories about the Democratic party about Hillary Clinton. You have those rape allegations in Sweden that were subsequently dropped. You have that period of time where he was holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy here in London. What is crucial about this extradition bid? By the US is that the u.s. Is trying to see Julian Assange in court over charges of hacking.

Not leaking. So that the charge is effectively that he worked with Chelsea Manning to try to hack Pentagon computers. Now, what this appeal battle is about is about whether us authorities can reassure British authorities that Julian Assange will be treated well enough in a US prison, whether they can rely on those assurances now cause Julian assange’s team and his fiance star.

Mars say you can’t, she’s just put out a statement speaking, outside the court. She says that this decision is dangerous and misguided a grave miscarriage of Justice. She goes on to say, how can it be fair? How can it be right? How can it be possible to extract Julian to the very country, which plotted to kill him. Now, that’s referring to claims that they have made at the CIA during a President Trump’s time looked at the possibility of tried to kill Julian Assange. Look like I say,

This now makes it much more likely that Julian Assange will appear appear. There in the u.s., I think you can’t talk about this case without highlighting two things. One is that those diplomatic cables really share the latch at a light on the Iraq and Afghanistan. War you remember, for example, those chilling, images of Apache helicopter, a killing civilians, in Iran. According to Reuters journalists. You can have to talk about that. And you also have to talk about Julian assange’s, apparent, Vendetta against Hillary Clinton, which

Him to engage with the Russians over those over those leaks. He is a very complex character. Again, though. This case is not about all that. It’s about a very simple question of whether he can be treated fairly in a US prison.

All right, NBC’s Keir Simmons. Thank you so much. Greatly. Appreciate it. As always, Claire mccaskill. There. There is a lot of smoke surrounding Julian Assange. Of course, there were the charges and in Sweden that were subsequently dropped. There is the, the hacking and his Vendetta against Hillary Clinton. There’s information that was released that showed military malfeasance.

By the United States, but you know, it’s so interesting that it used to be the far left to oppose George W. Bush’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Who made this guy a hero under the guise of the First Amendment. And then when he started leaking information against Hillary Clinton, it became the Trump, right? That suddenly held Julian is so but let’s just forget, the politics of this is a prosecutor. You’re given this case.

And you’ve got a guy who’s stolen thousands of documents High pages of Highly classified National Security, documents release them to the world and and in so doing put the lives of US troops of people who were working with the United States allies collaborators in war zones in the gravest of danger under under any scenario.

You take politics out of it. And this is an open and shut case. This is not the Pentagon papers. This wasn’t time’s editors rifling through documents figuring out what could be released and what couldn’t be released and explaining it. This was a guy that got stolen documents and gave it to the world.

This is pretty simple case. It’s very straightforward. And the beauty of a trial. Joe is that you narrow all of the extraneous stuff to the charges that are lat. They’re they’re against the defendant and the charges. In this case are that he was trying to hack into our military information. That protects not just our country, but all the men and women in uniform around the world. This is really serious stuff. Forget about the politics, the fact that both right.

Left, don’t like Julian Assange or love Julia Sanda. Depending on those circumstances is being talked about. That should tell you all you need to know. This is really a guy who just violated the law and, you know, I kind of laugh if their fight against extradition is that they’re worried about his safety in prison. They really have our don’t have perspective on this. There are lots and lots of people who go to federal prison who have done really worse things than

Julian Assange, and they are protected in prison. I don’t think he needs to worry about whether or not he’ll be safe in prison. This is really just a smokescreen to try to keep him from ever being accountable for the rule of law. You know, we started talking about Trump being accountable. This is a really important piece for the American rule of law to get him back to the United States and face these charges.

He could be in an American courtroom soon.

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