No one seems to be pressing the argument;
Can the US apply US laws in another country ?

As a boy, my sainted mother advised me, if you want to take any particular action, only proceed if you are prepared to face all the consequences!

Some folk believe they are above the law and can do as they please if there's a buck in it without having to face the consequences as would apply to any other citizen.

Sob, choke, my heart bleeds, Sob, boohoo. Poor Assange has been ailing for around a decade and a wonder he is still alive. Poor iddle dickums
Alan B.

One country's laws never ever apply in any other sovereign nation!

That's why they need extradition treaties and even then need to have an extradition treaty so the individual who may have broken their laws can be transported there to face their courts and defend his or her actions.

One notes had Assange simply faced up like a man as Manning did! He also could have been given the presidential pardon a mentally unwell Manning received. And perhaps the reason for Assange's current mental state of health, given if his condition is real he may be pardoned but incarcerated indefinitely in a mental asylum?

Gotta give it to this intellectual giant and a well thought through (mental health) defence strategy!?
Alan B.

1a. Why is Assange "ailing" (paragraph 1.)? Could it be Assange looked up Wikipedia to emulate the public sympathy tactics used by convicted IRA terrorist Bobby Sands. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Sands

1b. Binoy will of course admit that Assange painting his poo so distastefully on the Embassy walls was a crib on Bobby Sands smearing poo on walls in 1978 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Sands#Long_Kesh_years

1c. Binoy can also apologise for Assange's intentional hunger strike (in order to look "ailing") in memory of Sands starving himself to death in 1981 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Sands#Death

2. Why does uttering the word "CIA"!

Mean automatically freeing Assange, OK?

Explain yourself Binoy and other sycophants who support A!

3. Remember when Assange's support group, Wikileaks, threated journalists?

WIKILEAKS THREATENS COURT ACTION - ATTEMPTING TO CENSOR JOURNALISTS' FREEDOM OF SPEECH

In a move to prevent real journalists from doing to Wikileaks what Wikileaks does every day to Democratic governments, see January 7, 2019 http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/wikileaks-emails-journalists-with-97-false-and-defamatory-claims-to-avoid-in-reporting-on-founder-julian-assange/

Assange is in prison because he jumped bail. Pure and simple.

This has nothing to do with the CIA or the USA or US law.

But in order to muddy the water those of a certain leaning need to ignore the real reasons he's in prison (jumping bail while accused of rape) and invent others that might garner some sympathy from those who aren't inclined to think for themselves.

Now let's see if I've got this straight. The CIA spied on someone 50 years ago and that proves that they did it today? Well it doesn't get any more water-tight than that [sarcasm off].

Extradition was supposed to be to enable a government to get back an
offender who had left the country after committing the crime.
To stretch it to get someone who did or said something illegal in the
US but in another country is just unfair.
A US or other citizen could say something about overthrowing the US
government (sedition ?) and be dragged back to the US and sent to gaol.