Despite a dearth of evidence that he was complicit in Moscow’s hacking, President Trump was forced by the Justice Department and the FBI, urged on by congressional Democrats, to endure a two-year investigation and to govern under a cloud of suspicion that he was an agent of the Kremlin. Now we have Assange, as to whom there is indisputable evidence of complicity in the hacking conspiracy, but the Justice Department declines to charge him with it — instead, positing the dubious Manning conspiracy that may very well be time-barred.
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What is going on here?
That was my first impression too. Which is why I remarked that the whole thing seemed to have more angles than a protractor. But if I were to make a wholly unsupported guess based on nothing but speculation, I would suspect this is legal cleanup code. They want all the objects they created for the Collusion routine to go out of scope. Assange is being put through the meme destructor. His usefulness is over.