The notion that the US endeavors to arrest Assange is itself a conspiracy theory, as there is no direct evidence to support it. What crime would he be charged with?
When you build a narrative on a premise like that, you're already heading off into tinfoil hat country. People routinely assert --- far more credibly --- that Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld have blood on their hands.
Note also that the current headline on CNN is "Rape ccusation dropped against WikiLeaks founder", and the first story under that is "Is Assange target of smear campaign". Of course, this is neither here nor there; the CNN home page is engineered to maximize page views, not enlightenment.
In the case of sealed warrants there doesn't have to be any evidence for it to be true though. And if I were Julian Assange I wouldn't put America very high on my places to holiday list. Why take the risk if you don't have to?
Possible crimes he could be charged with?
No idea but I'm sure that the word 'interstate wirefraud' will pop up in there somewhere ;)
That might be irrelevant. My point was that a conspiracy theory is something which has no base in reason. The entirety of these events however cries out for an explanation.
When you build a narrative on a premise like that, you're already heading off into tinfoil hat country. People routinely assert --- far more credibly --- that Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld have blood on their hands.
Note also that the current headline on CNN is "Rape ccusation dropped against WikiLeaks founder", and the first story under that is "Is Assange target of smear campaign". Of course, this is neither here nor there; the CNN home page is engineered to maximize page views, not enlightenment.
Would you like a screenshot?