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In reply to the discussion: So let me see if I understand the 2 biggest hot button topics on DU [View all]JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)However, it is interesting you think a busy man like Obama necessarily is knowledgeable on every grand jury proceeding or potential extradition action. Maybe, maybe not, even in a case as prominent as this. After all, he may be too busy refining the drone-kill list. There are only so many things a president can micromanage.
Though in his actions as head of Wikileaks, Assange embodies ideals of transparency, press freedom and insistence on disclosure and justice that are supposed to be American, the US state would have designated him an enemy no matter what, even after the Bush administration that was responsible for the bulk of the war crimes went its way. Why is that? Why do you seem to approve of this conceptual dead end for our nation, this state of permanent war and permanent empire? Why aren't you appalled by all the politicians who have called for his death?