Assange, Ecuador's awkward guest who just won't leave

Fish are like house guests: they both begin to stink after three days.

Well it seems he needs another 4yrs and a excellent wifi (or other) internet connection.

Many of the "claims" being made in this articles are weak, unsubstantiated, or not legal "claims" at all. -Plus he should be able to defend against any and all legal claims irregardless of his physical presence.

It's been pointed out by Greenwald, the journalist that worked with Snowden, that Hillary is pretty much transparent and held to a different standard than Trump and the GOP that are opaque. I think Wikileaks has made a huge mistake in focusing on Hillary and the Dems. Their brand is damaged.

If it's worse than prison why not leave the embassy in to the waiting arms of the Met's finest. He has a warrant for jumping bail in the UK to answer, as well as facing all those friends he cheated by jumping the bail they had paid for.

Wikileaks is an outlet for the Kremlin these days.

Assange's sad little reality show is over, he should be sent to Sweden to answer to his sex crime allegations like the next individual convicted of wrongdoing - right after his gaol term form jumping bail in the UK.

@notagain The people that bailed him out, lined it all up to get him there!!

Your kidding right?

What's the purpose of these wikileaks of the Democrat Party campaign emails in the first place anyway?

Wikileaks' mission for itself is supposed to be exposing stuff that's violating the people's rights, like heavy-handed government surveillance.

First off, these campaign emails are indeed embarrassing, but that's not violating people's rights, so what are they going after with these? Are they in the business of controlling elections now?

Meanwhile in the political spectrum, Wikileaks leans more to the liberal side, so they're closer to the Democrat Party than the Republican Party - yet it's the Democrat Party that they're embarrassing. Wouldn't they know that the Republican Party winning would be tougher on them, so they're much like digging a grave for themselves.

But more importantly, for a group that's against government espionage, those campaign emails were snatched thru state-sponsored hacking. So they're being used as a tool for the very thing they're against. Instead, wouldn't it make more sense for them to expose exactly who state-sponsored this hacking, whether Russia or more authoritarian states like China? Such governments limit even more the rights of the people, so they should be rich for targets for them.

Everyone loved this guy when he was outing secrets of the Bush admin and other foreign governments at the time. Now that the shoe is on the other foot he's suddenly the scum of the earth...hmmm. How about people be consistent (like Wikileaks has)? People should champion true freedom of press and people willing to stake their lives and reputations on exposing the truth, regardless of whether it hurts your feelings or not. The truth hurts sometimes.

I'd stay somewhere safe too if I were Assange!

H Clinton is on record as suggesting that Assange should be murdered!

As a powerful political figure in the US and if the position of president is attained, then she could certainly make good on her murderous threat.

How dumb to think his lawyer had no idea he was going there.......DUMB.

The lawyer told him what was going to happen and got him to leave to go there 100%.