It&#x27;s rape by the definition of quite a few countries, and rightly so but there is a ton of questionable stuff about that whole affair, enough to make you wonder what&#x27;s true and what is not. There are some excellent write ups on the grisly facts and Assange definitely does not come out undamaged, no matter what your interpretation would be.<p>But that&#x27;s besides the point, the thing that bothers me is that Sweden could have tried him &#x27;in absentia&#x27; a hundred times over, it is just all too convenient that they seem to be perfectly content with having him bottled up in that Embassy which actually lends some credibility to Assange&#x27;s claims. And if I had pissed off as many powerful interests I&#x27;d be super paranoid too.<p>The part that they probably didn&#x27;t count on was that since he&#x27;s now in an actual embassy and has very few distractions most of Assanges flaws have no way to express themselves. The only thing Wikileaks currently does not have is a project director that can go places and give speeches, that definitely is a detriment but it need not be a fatal one.