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by notahacker 2792 days ago
It's not a good outcome for a UK government that has to justify letting him slip through their fingers having previously spent an absolute fortune on policing.
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The UK government seems to have recognized he sunk cost fallacy as a fallacy when they stopped the 24×7 “grab Assange if he leaves” watch.

Presuming Ecuador doesn't telegraph the timing of the ejection, I don't think there's a whole lot to justify that the UK government hasn't already clearly accepted the risk of needing to justify.