[Peace] FBI informant Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson now denies several parts of his testimony on which US case is built

[J.B. Nicholson]

There's not currently much coverage of this out there, but Sigurdur Ingi 
Thordarson now denies several parts of his testimony on which US case is 
built.

Edward Snowden tweeted in 
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1408847450656415751
> This is the end of the case against Julian Assange.

to which Glenn Greenwald replied in 
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1408893235058065410
> It should be.



https://stundin.is/grein/13627/key-witness-in-assange-case-admits-to-lies-in-indictment/
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/teenage-wikileaks-volunteer-why-i-served-as-an-fbi-informant/
https://on.rt.com/bb6b

 From https://on.rt.com/bb6b which begins:
> Key accusations in the case against WikiLeaks co-founder Julian 
> Assange, who
> faces up to 175 years in prison if extradited to the US, are reportedly 
> based on
> testimony from a convicted fraudster who admitted to media he was 
> lying.
> 
> Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, an Icelandic citizen and former WikiLeaks 
> volunteer
> who became an FBI informant for $5,000, has admitted to Icelandic 
> newspaper
> Stundin that he fabricated important parts of the accusations in the
> indictment.
> 
> In an article published on Saturday, Stundin details several parts of 
> his
> testimony that he now denies, claiming that Assange never instructed 
> him to
> carry out any hacking.
> 
> The newspaper points out that even though a court in London has refused 
> to
> extradite Assange to the US on humanitarian grounds, it still sided 
> with the US
> when it came to claims based on Thordarson's now-denied testimony. For
> instance, the ruling says that “Mr. Assange and Teenager failed a joint 
> attempt
> to decrypt a file stolen from a 'NATO country 1' bank,” where "NATO 
> country 1"
> is believed to refer to Iceland, while "Teenager" referred to 
> Thordarson
> himself.