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wolco on April 11, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Julian Assange arrested in London

The CIA killing him would have created a huge us pr nightmare.

fixermark on April 11, 2019 [–]

Correct. And would have been entirely unnecessary, because they could just wait him out.

If the goal is deterrence, he works just as well as a symbol rotting in the Ecuadorian embassy as either dead or rotting in jail.

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