>The crime he’s charged with is that he was willing to (and I think did?) assist in breaking into a computer system to get the docs. I think under the CFAA. They have communication records of this because the person he was talking to was working for the USG.
The US government claims this, but it's not been proven.
>At some point Russia was also using Wikileaks as a place to target the USG with some plausible deniability and Assange’s personal anti-US politics became a corrupting influence too.
>To what extent were the sex related charges against him political or flared up by nation state meddling?
There are no charges. There never were any charges. There was an investigation and that's as far as it went.
>UPDATE GREAT NEWS: Swedish prosecutors are about to announce the dropping of the investigation into Julian Assange on sexual offence allegations. There never were any charges and the allegations were always nonsense, as detailed in the below article I wrote a month ago:
The US government claims this, but it's not been proven.
>At some point Russia was also using Wikileaks as a place to target the USG with some plausible deniability and Assange’s personal anti-US politics became a corrupting influence too.
This is just more Russiagate nonsense: https://pics.me.me/russiagate-explained-wikileaks-posted-the...
>To what extent were the sex related charges against him political or flared up by nation state meddling?
There are no charges. There never were any charges. There was an investigation and that's as far as it went.
>UPDATE GREAT NEWS: Swedish prosecutors are about to announce the dropping of the investigation into Julian Assange on sexual offence allegations. There never were any charges and the allegations were always nonsense, as detailed in the below article I wrote a month ago:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2017/05/no-rape-char...