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Hello and welcome to CoffeeHasShorts,

expect haters daily political podcast.

I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by James Forsyfe and Fraser Nelson.

So we have the news this morning that Julian Assange is an extradition from the UK to the US

has been approved by the home secretary. James, what comes after this? Are we expecting an appeal?

I think a appeal is guaranteed from the authority and they've got 14 days to make it and I think

they will. I think it was always highly likely that the UK was going to extract Julian Assange

to the US, given the national security implications of what WikiLeaks did and I think also

the kind of indiscriminate nature of the leaking makes it harder I think to argue that this was

kind of classic kind of whistleblower stuff. This is not the kind of pentagon papers and it was done

in such a way that I think you can say there was no consideration given to what some of the real world

consequences of his actions were going to be. James, what do you make of the government's decision

on this because there's been some surprising figures actually coming out and support of Assange

in recent months, effectively saying you may not like him but in terms of what this case represents,

it sets a dangerous precedent. I think I would have more sympathy of that argument if the

Assange leaking had not been so blanket, so indiscriminate. This wasn't an attempt to highlight

a particular issue or you know it was just we are going to leak this because we can

and I mean it is the indiscriminate nature of this that means I think it's harder to say that

this is journalism than if it had been more fought through and more aimed at uncovering or revealing

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