The U.S. Can’t Fix the Economy But We Can Still Threaten People (So There)
Courtesy of Jr. Deputy Accountant
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will probably not be coming to the U.S. any time soon.
"Today the Whitehouse put out a private briefing to reporters about Wikileaks and me and it quoted a section from an interview with me in Die Spiegel saying that I enjoy crushing ——–.
"Somehow the Whitehouse finds that offensive.
"In terms of returning to the United States I don’t know. Our sources advise from inside the US government that there were thoughts of whether I could be charged as a co-conspirator to espionage, which is serious.
"That doesn’t seem to be the thinking within the United States any more however there is the other possibility of being detained as a material witness and being kept either in confinement or not being allowed to leave the country until the Manning case is concluded."
You can implode our banking system all you want but don’t you dare mess with our 9 year long wars.
In completely related news, the House just happened to give up $33 billion to both ongoing engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan.