Maybe instead of digging into the details of Assange's situation, it might be more productive to step back and put it in context, then step further back and put that in context..

As Smedley Butler put it close to a hundred years ago, War is a racket. Meaning the military was serving the corporate overlords, than any actual national security issue, even back then.

Then World War 2 happened to be the public works project that got us out of the Depression, leaving the military industrial complex as an overwhelming power base in the politics of this country.

One other aspect that doesn't seem to get any attention, is that our financial sector could not function, without the government borrowing up trillions in effectively surplus investment money.

That is the real elephant in the room. In reality the MIC is just the trophy wife of the banks. She gets all the toys she wants and wars to keep her busy and no one can point out she doesn't know squat about actual strategy.

If any other military in history had such a string of monumental failures as ours has had, a fair number of those responsible would have met their maker as reward. Yet ours are showered with cushy jobs in the industry, or media. Why? Because actually fighting and winning wars is not the reason all this money is spent.

We don't have a gold, or commodities based currency, we have a debt based currency.

As Deep Throut told Woodward, Follow the money.

So now they want to make an example of Assange, by making him a martyr. Given their record of strategic incompetence, might this blow up in their face, as well?

I think there should be an Assange for President write-in campaign. Given the two parties will be running the usual stooges, if not the same deranged clown and demented puppet as last time, the comparison would be stark.

"They can drink the hemlock, get nailed to the cross, burned at the stake, shot, thrown in jail for life, but history doesn't forget."