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Flight costs Assange all credibility (NZ Herald editorial)
5:30 AM Monday Aug 27, 2012
... Mr Assange's calculated avoidance of the actual reason he had broken the terms of his bail and sought refuge in the embassy can only have further damaged his reputation. He decided to seek asylum in Ecuador not because of any threat to his freedom posed by the United States but because he is wanted for questioning in Sweden over wholly unrelated rape claims by two women. A 10-minute speech that contained no mention of this was hardly the hallmark of a man committed to openness, honesty and accountability ...
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10829649
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