United States vs. Manning

A timeline of the U.S. investigation between 2006 to 2013

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2012-06-20
 
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QUESTION: Any contact with Ecuador since Julian Assange's arrival at the Embassy in London requesting asylum and perhaps a request that he be extradited to the United States on the WikiLeaks (inaudible)?

MS. NULAND: No. No.

QUESTION: On that subject, does the Administration care where Julian Assange decides he wants to spend the night? Is this a subject that keeps people up in Washington? I don't ' is it something that you have any interest in at all?

MS. NULAND: This is a UK-Ecuador-Sweden issue.

QUESTION: Well, people who ' his people around him seem to think that the U.S. is some puppeteer here that's controlling all the strings. And I just ' I mean, does anyone give a second thought about Julian Assange? And maybe you can't answer that for anyone ' but I mean, are you aware of anyone who gives a fig where Julian Assange is?

MS. NULAND: To my knowledge, we are not involved in any of these discussions.

QUESTION: Yeah, but do you care? Does anyone --

MS. NULAND: Again, you're asking me to speak for the great mass of America.

QUESTION: Well, I mean ' but in terms of ' no, in terms of the ' in terms of this building.

MS. NULAND: We want to see justice served. Let's leave it at that.

QUESTION: Yeah. But that would be justice ' Swedish justice.

MS. NULAND: We are obviously not involved in the process, as far as I know.
  Name(s:) Victoria Nuland
  Title: Spokesperson
  Agency(ies): Department of State
Concerning: Sweden versus Assange
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