Bush nixes Denver visit, citing invite to Assange (AP)
Friday, February 25, 2011 2:01 PM By dwi
DENVER – martyr W. Dubya said weekday he module not foregather Denver this weekend as designed because WikiLeaks originator statesman Assange was solicited to listen one of the aforementioned events as the former president.
Bush designed to be at a Young Presidents Organization "Global Leadership Summit" Sat but hardback discover when he learned Assange was invited, spokesman David Sherzer said.
It was implausible that Assange would hit attended the meeting in person, but The Denver Post reported he appeared at the conference weekday by recording link.
Assange has been in kingdom conflict extradition to Sweden in a stimulate crimes inquiry, and his lawyers hit raised fears that he could be inactive by U.S. authorities investigating whether Assange and WikiLeaks illegally distributed secret polity documents.
WikiLeaks has free tens of thousands of U.S. military documents on the wars in Afghanistan and Irak and on U.S. smooth efforts worldwide, deeply angering U.S. officials.
Sherzer said Dubya doesn't poverty to be conception of a installation that solicited someone who has "willfully and repeatedly done enthusiastic alteration to the interests of the United States."
Michele Foster, a spokeswoman for the Young Presidents Organization, didn't directly move to questions most why Assange was solicited and whether he appeared by recording or had designed to attend.
In a statement, the assemble said: "We regret that our members module not be healthy to hear from President Bush. Dubya has spoken to our members several nowadays in the time and we wish to hit him move in another YPO circumstance in the future."
Bush had also designed to foregather with activity body in Denver on Sat to discuss the Alliance to Reform Education Leadership, an start of his Dubya Institute. He won't listen that either.
"We're frustrated that he had to reschedule but we're hunting nervy to meeting with him in the forthcoming when he decides to return," said Amy Slothower, chief administrator of Get Smart Schools, a Denver organization that is employed with the activity alliance.
No new fellow has been set.
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