Ahead of tomorrow's verdict, I invite you to read my interview with Gary McKinnon @DoubleOhNever. The US govt tried for ten years to extradite him for hacking into the Pentagon, NASA and other sites – before a UK-US extradition treaty was even ratified.
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"The treaty says that the US can have any UK citizen extradited without a burden of proof, just reasonable suspicion, whereas the UK can’t do the same to a US citizen since they are protected by their constitution." 
Gary on the likely treatment Assange will receive in a US jail: "I think they will treat him as badly as they legally can."
"But they are keeping him there [in Belmarsh prison] to punish him, the US get very personal in these cases (‘we wanna see him fry’, ‘we’ll prosecute you to the max’ etc), they want you to be deeply uncomfortable and depressed so that you’ll just give in."
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