The Ecuador Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement on Friday combatting WikiLeaks claims that the embassy in London intends to expel WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and had already arranged for his arrest, according to NBC’s translation of the statement.
The ministry said Assange has demonstrated “ingratitude and disrespect” toward Ecuador, despite the protection the Ecuadorian embassy has offered him since 2012.
“(We) have made significant expenditures to pay for his stay (and have) endured its rudeness,” the statement said of Assange and WikiLeaks, according to NBC.
WikiLeaks tweeted on Friday that Assange would be kicked out of the embassy “within ‘hours to days'” and claimed the country had made arrangements for the UK to put him under arrest.
These people must have the patience of Job (or they just get some sort of perverse value out of the attention).
Wikileaks was a good idea started and run by an apparently bad person.
Apparently Ecuador has the patience of the Dalai Lama.
Both WikiLeaks and Assange himself have overinflated opinions of his importance and reputation. He could have his flesh eaten off of his bones by feral pigs and no one would care. If they really were the saviors they pretend to be, they would be doing everything in their power to avenge the murder of Khashoggi by Saudi Arabia, but, heavens to Betsy!, how can they be bothered to deal with piddling non-issues like that!
What is so great about setting up an anonymous dropbox for hacked information? Wikileaks is easily manipulated by intelligence services and bad actors.