LIZZIE DEARDEN
Tuesday 01 September 2015

... Documents reportedly leaked from the embassy in Knightsbridge, where he still resides, appear to reveal a list of escape plans drawn up for the WikiLeaks founder in 2012.

Slides from a PowerPoint presentation outlined “possible escape scenarios for Assange”, including using diplomatic immunity, a car, disguise and putting him in a bag ...

The documents, seen by BuzzFeed News and initially reported on by journalist Fernando Villavicencio, have been posted online by the WikiLeaks Forum.

The Ecuadorian Embassy has not responded to The Independent's requests for comment and a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said the force would not discuss the leak “for operational reasons” ...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/julian-assange-leaked-documents-reveal-ecuadorian-embassys-disguise-escape-plan-10481420.html

David Barrett, The Telegraph
September 2, 2015 5:31 PM ET

... In September 2012 he was discovered in the security control room, which was off-limits, and was said to have been tampering with equipment.

A security guard alleged Assange then punched a computer screen and grabbed him by the shirt. Assange gave a contradictory account blaming the security guard for accosting him ...

In January 2013 another incident occurred in which a loud crash was heard from inside Assange’s quarters in the embassy just after 6 a.m. A security guard took photographs of a tall bookcase which was lying face-down in the room. Assange told embassy staff later that the bookcase had fallen over of its own accord.

The dossier also revealed staff were concerned about Assange’s “evident anger” and “feelings of superiority” and stated officials in the building should “control access to alcohol” ...

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/ecuadorian-embassy-considered-sneaking-julian-assange-out-dressed-in-a-fancy-dress

Obviously the embassy staff is in on the conspiracy! Duh!
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What was he doing in the secure control room, stealing letterhead and forging documents?

BY RACHELLE BLIDNER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, September 2, 2015, 9:29 AM

... In January 2013, the bookshelf in Assange's room was knocked over in an incident a security guard deemed suspicious, according to a minute-by-minute report detailing Assange's activities before dawn. Although Assange maintained the bookshelf fell on its own, he told the guard - who rushed to his room after hearing a crash around 6:10 a.m. - that everything was fine and appeared to try to block the guard's view into the room.

It was only after Assange took his laptop with him to the bathroom - where he stayed for hours - that the guard found the bookshelf in pieces on the floor.

"This episode is nothing more than the result of the stress that Mr Assange could be feeling as a result of his isolation," a report said. "If it's clear that his situation could result in psychological harm because of the circumstances in which he finds himself, it's equally clear that there is no protocol that might help avoid or minimize this."

Assange was known to "shout and talk incoherently" at night from night terrors and showcase his "evident anger" and "feelings of superiority" - which caused stress to "the personnel who work in the embassy, mainly women" ...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/wikileaks-julian-assange-issues-hideout-leaked-memos-article-1.2345414

THE TIMES
SEPTEMBER 3, 2015 12:00AM

... He sleeps in a converted ladies’ lavatory at the back of a ground-floor flat and has an office with a treadmill for exercise and a sun lamp for vitamin D ...

One entry accuses Mr Assange of punching a guard after being caught using equipment in a room from which he was barred ...

Although Mr Assange ­blamed the guard, the report said Mr Guest knows “what the limits of his movements are inside the embassy”. “We cannot allow these incidents to be repeated, nor any further attacks against personnel who work for the embassy,” it said ...

A spokeswoman for Scotland Yard said: “Our objective is to arrest­ Julian Assange for breach of bail. Under no circumstances would an arrest be made in breach of diplomatic immunity.”

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/julian-assanges-plot-to-escape-embassy-in-diplomatic-bag/story-fnb64oi6-1227509921688?sv=7a3922e75f5b47a9000c0412fa3c89b3

by Claire Groden
SEPTEMBER 1, 2015, 11:47 AM EDT

Assange is stuck, and even “fancy dress” won’t help him escape ...

Assange’s current fate might not be so different from a Swedish or American prison, however. One Ecuadorian report notes: “If it’s clear that his situation could result in psychological harm because of the circumstances in which he finds himself, it’s equally clear that there is no protocol that might help avoid or minimise this” ...

http://fortune.com/2015/09/01/julian-assange-ecuadorian-embassy/

The Guardian, The Independent, The National Post, The NY Daily News, and The Australian would all come out with these stories all at the same time.

So I'm wondering... what's up with that?

" documents, seen by BuzzFeed News and initially reported on by journalist Fernando Villavicencio, have been posted online by the WikiLeaks Forum"

This is sort of how news works, if you hadn't noticed. Especially with documents. It's the point of Wikileaks.

Those articles indicate the major news outlets appropriately sought, and are still awaiting, comments from the Ecuadorians et al

It'as not surprising: that's what news outlets do when other news outlets release apparently-leaked documents

I have, of course, no way of knowing whether the leak is genuine or whether the stories are actually true. But they do seem consistent with Assange's personality and various prior indications that Assange-embassy relations have not always been entirely smooth, as indicated (for example) by the 2013 WaPo story I linked upthread

people just throwing him out on the street.

Correa sometimes sounds like he's been snagged into some inside-baseball game

Biting the hand that feeds him - smart move.

I'm on to your schtick.
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He's like a cute, cuddly chinchilla!


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Waste of time and money imo.

then you should appear in court; if you don't appear, you risk the court's displeasure; and if the court allows you to post bond or sureties to guarantee your appearance, instead of keeping you locked it, there will be official grumpiness when you go on the lam instead