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You need an actual crime to extradite someone. That's why the rape case is so important.

That's the difference between "rendition" (kidnapping) and legal extradition.

There's no plausible crime to use for a UK extradition because Assange didn't hack into the systems himself, and isn't bound by our laws on the release of classified information.




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