Britain’s Supreme Court upholds verdict to extradite Wikileak founder Julian Assange to Sweden.

Assange is best known for revealing hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. documents, including a hard-to-watch video that captured U.S. forces gunning down a crowd of Iraqi civilians and journalists that they’d mistaken for insurgents.

His release of a quarter-million classified State Department cables outraged Washington and destabilized American diplomacy worldwide.

Assange’s appeal before the Supreme Court had little to do either with WikiLeaks or with the Swedish sex case itself. His lawyers were seeking to quash his warrant on the ground that it was improperly issued by a prosecutor, not a judge.

The Swedish government argued that’s the way the system works in Sweden, as in many other European countries.