Any politician would jump at the change to smear Assange. Duh.

Well, no shit. If you recall she is a democrat and she was Secretary of State during a democrat's presidency, at which time Assange was wrongfully detained. Obviously you can link it together. This has been known for a while that Assange had a smear campaign run against him. Literally the only thing this is doing is saying that Hillary was where she was when she was, as to make it look like she is solely responsible for this. (I.e. This is a smear campaign as well...) Also, I'm pretty sure it was conservatives who vehemently stood by the opinion that Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange were criminals when Manning revealed how the campaigns in the Middle East were less about defense and more about money on WikiLeaks. That is, by the way, how this entire debacle started. Just like how conservatives viewed Edward Snowden as a criminal. They don't want big government, but they're okay with their government keeping these kind of secrets from them (until it works out in their favor to use it as rhetoric!) how ironic is that?

You know why he's hiding in the embassy right?