I chose to say "US government" instead of "administration" because it may or may not have been the "administration" that requested the UK to extradite Assange.
Other factions within the US government are attempting to hold the executive branch in check, and it's possible that one of these factions requested the arrest and extradition.
> I chose to say "US government" instead of "administration" because it may or may not have been the "administration" that requested the UK to extradite Assange.
No one outside of the administration has the authority to request extradition.
Other factions within the US government are attempting to hold the executive branch in check, and it's possible that one of these factions requested the arrest and extradition.
At this point we do not know.