On Espionage
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Yet while Mr Assange has widely acknowledged his role in disseminating classified documents, legal experts say US criminal statutes and case law do not cleanly apply to his case.
US espionage law has been used to prosecute US officials who provided secrets to foreign governments or foreign spies who pursued US secrets.
But Mr Assange, an Australian citizen, former computer hacker and self-described journalist, did not work for the US government, has no known links to foreign governments, and operates on the internet, by all accounts far from US soil.
Proof of harm
No single US law makes it a crime specifically to disclose classified government documents, but legal experts say the government would most likely prosecute under the Espionage Act of 1917, although Mr Holder cited "other tools at our disposal".
Under the Espionage Act, prosecutors would have to prove Mr Assange was aware the leaks could harm US national security, or show he had a hand in improperly obtaining them from the government.
"That act is a difficult act to prosecute people under, especially someone who might be considered a journalist, as he would argue he is," said Gabriel Schoenfeld, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and author of Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law.
In only one known instance has the US prosecuted for espionage individuals who were neither in a position of trust with the government nor agents of a foreign power. That effort ended in failure.
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On absurd Swedish sex laws, and what really happened (German)
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Sie hob hervor, dass nach schwedischem Recht Nötigung oder Vergewaltigung in einem minder schweren Fall vorliegen kann, wenn sich eine Frau nach dem Sex unwohl fühlt oder sich ausgenutzt vorkommt.
Von der Sozialdemokratin ist bekannt, dass sie am 12. Januar 2010 eine Übersetzung von „7 Steps to Legal Revenge“ - einem Ratgeber, wie man es schafft, dass gegen einen Mann Anklage erhoben wird - in ihren Blog einstellte.
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A feminist activist, a women regretting to have agreed to unprotected sex, and a female state attorney with a personal anti-male-agenda. Voila: ready is your
rape-case.
With laws like that I wonder if Swedish males even dare to try to reproduce, or if the Swedes are simply going extinct.