for live analysis we are now joined by patrick henningsen of the twenty first century wired dot com news site welcome to the program now what is your reaction to the sentence both the fact that she's been convicted and the length of the term given. i'm actually surprised you know i would consider her time served on remand as the sentence itself it looks like this is a face saving exercise i think this was political from the beginning i think a lot of people who look at this case carefully and all honestly would agree with that in fact some of the media stories that have been circulating about her early on have been proven to be patently false like that she was exchanging sexual favors for information or somehow trying to sort of corrupt the democratic system through activities and this is all mainly in the wake of the twenty sixteen election and i think her lawyer is absolutely spot on if she wasn't russian this wouldn't be happening so why do you think boys now wasn't deported back to russia immediately as her lawyer expected. yeah that's a good question that's what that's what i would

global affairs analyst patrick henningsen believes the songs would never get a fair trial in the u.s. . it has all the sort of indications of the kind of backroom deal that's been done between a three way deal between the government of ecuador the british government and the united states government the danger here is not going to face justice in the united states what he is going to face is a secret grand jury proceeding most likely in northeastern virginia most likely will be ruled on by a judge who has ruled against every single whistleblower. under the obama administration including thomas drake john kerry aku and many others ok so this is from from a legal point of view of justice point of view this is a total stitch up joining sides will not face due process or justice he's going to face. a simulacra of it but not the real thing as long as the rest has gained global attention with thousands rolling in support of the australian born whistleblower from quito to budapest protesters have been gathering outside u.s. embassies expressing concern over a songes possible extradition with

they were the guys on this patrick henningsen is concerned about the presence this set sometimes the jews being the song will get a fair trial. it has all the sort of indications of the kind of backroom deal that's been done between a three way deal between the government of ecuador the british government and the united states government the danger here is not going to face justice in the united states what he is going to face is a secret grand jury proceeding most likely in northeastern virginia most likely will be ruled on by a judge who has ruled against every single whistleblower. under the obama administration including thomas drake john kerry aku and many others ok so this is from from a legal point of view of justice point of view this is a total stitch up joyce knowledge will not face due process or justice she's going to face. a simulacra of it but not the real thing and that's going to be the the injustice of this whole proceedings so what we're seeing right now is the criminalization of journalism the criminalization of publishing. a supine mainstream media that is not pro

led forces feel you are in combat in taliban insurgency patrick henningsen executive editor of news site twenty first century wired dot com believes the u.s. has a number of tools at its disposal to make ecuador more amenable. look at the claims by moran oh he's accusing wiki leaks of hacking so this hacking accusation where does this sound familiar we've heard this before this is exactly what the united states has been waging on wiki leaks in terms of accusations with regards to russia gate and so with very little evidence to sort of back it up so it seems like the ecuadorian government's getting p.r. cues from washington in this respect certainly there's a number of things that she's not only the stick but also the carrot you have to remember that the four point two billion dollar i.m.f. loan package that has just been awarded to the government of ecuador is is is a massive thing that sort of makes sense a carrot and stick approach this is one of the hallmarks of this white house is negotiation techniques so there's plenty of evidence implicating london marano if you. this is a huge ca

can absolutely be sure of it the whole world is watching and waiting to see what happens next patrick henningsen of twenty first century wired dot com thank you for joining us on the program. commenting on the latest revelations former ecuadorian president rafael correa says there's plenty of evidence implicating lennon marano if it does leave. huge case one of the most important serious corruption case this in history proves we have a lot of proof it really really raises we have been secret out the reasons you were commenting don't buy what we have to sit there can't we know really. a lot of. days where the. family for instance the government major and ghost or in. a firm you two are here is truly me. thinks but when lisa count will be organ the we will be able to see where does the money go on the. most protected i repeat there is no choice you asked and she said it was only in c.t. scan she has a disk and she saw according to our constitution. will be decided to do the next day no order and they go remember most probably the most but there is right that we will see what. it will do. the us co