He fled and let the statute of limitations expire. His excuse was Sweden might extradite him to the US, but the UK wouldnt.

> Sweden might extradite him to the US, but the UK wouldnt

An excuse that was always made zero sense.

It later emerged that at the time of the Swedish investigation, there was no indictment from the US.

And you do not think, that would have changed the minute, he was in jail in sweden?

> but the UK wouldnt

The UK routinely extradites people to the US (and facilitated extraordinary renditions from UK soil). The claim he could not leave the UK for fear of being extradited to the US was always a nonsensical lie.

I did not comment on that. But it seems he was right that he was in fact not extradited to the US after all while being in the UK.

(there was no claim that the UK does not extradict to the US in general, but in this specific case they might not)

> it seems he was right that he was in fact not extradited to the US after all while being in the UK

He is on his way to US soil right now and will appear in US territory before a US judge, he has been extradited.

"the only reason he is not "extradited" is he is surrendering himself."

He was already in prison. Usually you do not let people go out to let them extradict themself.

It is a weird comprimise to put an end to this farce.

It is perfectly normal - If the judge orders the person's extradition, he must remand the person in custody or on bail pending the extradition. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK.

In reality he is not "free" till the judge slaps their hammer down.

No, I don't think that would have changed, because the decision making of the Obama administration and DOJ at the time is now known.

No more than if he was in the UK.

You can say "rape". It's not a dirty word.

So many people are trained nowadays to self-censor certain words so that "the algorithm" won't shadowban their comment. Thankfully, HN is one of the few websites on the modern internet to not have such censorship algorithm.

Some things have become pretty dystopian these days.

Is the secret word "rape"?

Yes.