{"id":29340,"date":"2015-02-20T13:43:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T18:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/uncategorized\/uk-officers-review-assange-case.php"},"modified":"2015-02-20T13:43:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T18:43:05","slug":"uk-officers-review-assange-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wikileaks\/uk-officers-review-assange-case.php","title":{"rendered":"UK officers review Assange case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    British police are reviewing the operation to guard WikiLeaks    founder Julian Assange, the UK's most senior officer has said.  <\/p>\n<p>    Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe told    LBC radio that the force is assessing its options due to the    pressure the operation at the Ecuadorian embassy in London is    putting on resources.  <\/p>\n<p>    'We won't talk about tactics but we are reviewing what options    we have. It is sucking our resources,' he said.  <\/p>\n<p>    Assange has been at the embassy since June 2012 to avoid    extradition to Sweden where the Australian faces questions over    claims of sexual assaults, which he denies.  <\/p>\n<p>    Last week Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said the cost of the    operation was around the 10 million mark.  <\/p>\n<p>    Assange came under intense scrutiny after WikiLeaks began    releasing a selection of more than 250,000 classified US    diplomatic cables passed to the whistle-blowing website back in    2010.  <\/p>\n<p>    Assange's supporters last year pondered whether he was to end    his self-imposed embassy stay amid concerns over his long-term    health.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/wap.thenews.bigpond.com\/articles\/World\/2015\/02\/10\/UK_officers_review_Assange_case_1034484.html\/RK=0\/RS=fIhygKQ_nT5g1R_uza4Ouz.PHEo-\" title=\"UK officers review Assange case\">UK officers review Assange case<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> British police are reviewing the operation to guard WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the UK's most senior officer has said. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe told LBC radio that the force is assessing its options due to the pressure the operation at the Ecuadorian embassy in London is putting on resources. 'We won't talk about tactics but we are reviewing what options we have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}