The price of tin foil is about to leap up after this latest
Huffington Post conspiracy theory. Now the progressive site is saying Karl Rove is behind the prosecution of Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange. No really,
this is not a joke. They believe that the Obama administration is working with the Government of Sweden, along with Bush administration political director Karl Rove, the man they consider Dr. Evil, to have Julian Assange arrested for rape:
Karl Rove's help for Sweden as it assists the Obama administration's prosecution against WikiLeaks could be the latest example of the adage, "Politics makes strange bedfellows."
Rove has advised Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt for the past two years after resigning as Bush White House political advisor in mid-2007. Rove's resignation followed the scandalous Bush mid-term political purge of nine of the nation's 93 powerful U.S. attorneys.
These days, Sweden and the United States are apparently undertaking a political prosecution as audacious and important as those by the notorious "loyal Bushies" earlier this decade against U.S. Democrats.
The U.S. prosecution of WikiLeaks, if successful, could criminalize many kinds of investigative news reporting about government affairs, not just the WikiLeaks disclosures that are embarrassing Sweden as well as the Bush and Obama administrations. Authorities in both countries are setting the stage with pre-indictment sex and spy smears against WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange, plus an Interpol manhunt.
"This all has Karl's signature," a reliable political source told me a week and a half ago in encouraging our Justice Integrity Project to investigate Rove's Swedish connection. "He must be very happy. He's right back in the middle of it. He's making himself valuable to his new friends, seeing the U.S. government doing just what he'd like ─ and screwing his opponents big-time."
......So why does the Obama administration treat Rove and his GOP allies with kid gloves? Why are so many in the conventional media so passive to threats to our historic due process and First Amendment freedoms? A thorough answer requires at least a separate column for documentation. For now, let's just say that a lot of opponents of WikiLeaks seem to be in a big bed together, shouting, "Terror! Terror! Terror! Fear! Fear! Fear!"
Gee Whiz, I thought it was
Bradly Manning going slightly mad, but this Huffington Post column is absolutely loony-tunes. I am surprised they didn't find a way to blame Dick Cheney for the rape charges. Hey here's a unique idea maybe, Assange actually did it. Nah, impossible, that does not fit the Huffington Post's progressive scenario.
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