{"id":37671,"date":"2021-07-09T12:37:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T20:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=37671"},"modified":"2021-07-09T12:37:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T20:37:43","slug":"aaron-mat-us-refuses-to-drop-assange-hunt-even-after-key-witness-admits-to-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/09\/aaron-mat-us-refuses-to-drop-assange-hunt-even-after-key-witness-admits-to-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Mat&eacute;: US Refuses To Drop Assange Hunt Even After Key Witness Admits to Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/\">The Grayzone<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The US government is continuing to seek the extradition of Julian Assange even though a critical witness in its indictment has admitted to fabricating key claims. Bjartmar Alexandersson, the Icelandic journalist who broke <a href=\"https:\/\/stundin.is\/grein\/13627\/key-witness-in-assange-case-admits-to-lies-in-indictment\/\">this story<\/a>, discusses the explosive confession of US witness Sigurdur &#8220;Siggi&#8221; Thordarson.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3YGGwp_cwVY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patreon.com\/grayzone\">Support The Grayzone at Patreon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Grayzone: The US government is continuing to seek the extradition of Julian Assange even though a critical witness in its indictment has admitted to fabricating key claims. Bjartmar Alexandersson, the Icelandic journalist who broke this story, discusses the explosive confession of US witness Sigurdur &#8220;Siggi&#8221; Thordarson. Support The Grayzone at Patreon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-37671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37671"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37675,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37671\/revisions\/37675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37671"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=37671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}