US economic threat to Spain
The information that Wikileaks leaked shed more light on the corruption behind the “security” facade, & probably is the reason for the vendetta sought against Assange.. lock him up in the hope no others will follow his lead..
In a leaked letter sent to Spain’s outgoing President, the US ambassador to the country warned that as punishment for not passing a SOPA-style file-sharing site blocking law, Spain risked being put on a United States trade blacklist . Inclusion would have left Spain open to a range of “retaliatory options” but already the US was working with the incoming government to reach its goals.