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2021-09-26 Government Corruption

Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA's secret war plans against WikiLeaks

[Yahoo via Flipboard] In 2017, as Julian Assange began his fifth year holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in London, the CIA plotted to kidnap the WikiLeaks founder, spurring heated debate among Trump administration officials over the legality and practicality of such an operation.

Some senior officials inside the CIA and the Trump administration even discussed killing Assange, going so far as to request "sketches" or "options" for how to assassinate him. Discussions over kidnapping or killing Assange occurred "at the highest levels" of the Trump administration, said a former senior counterintelligence official. "There seemed to be no boundaries."

The conversations were part of an unprecedented CIA campaign directed against WikiLeaks and its founder. The agency’s multipronged plans also included extensive spying on WikiLeaks associates, sowing discord among the group’s members, and stealing their electronic devices.

While Assange had been on the radar of U.S. intelligence agencies for years, these plans for an all-out war against him were sparked by WikiLeaks’ ongoing publication of extraordinarily sensitive CIA hacking tools, known collectively as "Vault 7," which the agency ultimately concluded represented "the largest data loss in CIA history."

President Trump’s newly installed CIA director, Mike Pompeo, was seeking revenge on WikiLeaks and Assange, who had sought refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy since 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden on rape allegations he denied. Pompeo and other top agency leaders "were completely detached from reality because they were so embarrassed about Vault 7," said a former Trump national security official. "They were seeing blood."

Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-26 07:29|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Yahoo leftist rubbish of the first order !

Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-26 07:44|| 2021-09-26 07:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Glad I didn't post it.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-26 07:55|| 2021-09-26 07:55|| Front Page Top

#3 The Donald Trump leftist pile-on has begun anew.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-26 08:42|| 2021-09-26 08:42|| Front Page Top

#4 That's whatcha call yer redirect.

Pay no attention to the border fiasco - AFG debacle - stagflation - Milley's treachery - skyrocketing black murder rate - creeping Communism - admissions that Biden & his family are indeed the most corrupt presidential family we've ever seen ... LOOK! Over there--St. Julian ASSANGE IS BEING MARTYRED AGAIN !!

Posted by Faux Drapeau 2021-09-26 08:52|| 2021-09-26 08:52|| Front Page Top

#5 I note that after all this, Assange is still alive and the CIA conspired to run Trump out of office.
View this story from that viewpoint.
In the intel business, it's called 'walking back the cat'. Look at yesterday's events through today's knowledge.

Posted by ed in texas 2021-09-26 11:04|| 2021-09-26 11:04|| Front Page Top

#6 This leak took place during the Obama administration. So we are now told that Trump's man, Pompeo, was so upset by it, that instead of investigating the source of the leak within the CIA, he was determined to punish the publisher of the leak.

It seems to me that the leakers themselves would be the ones who wanted to eliminate Assange to avoid Pompeo making a deal with him that might expose them.

This at least would be consistent with the extreme anti-Trump behavior of a segment of the CIA, which undoubtedly included opposition to Pompeo.

And it is completely consistent with this present leak.

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Posted by Goober Choluque6459 2021-09-26 11:58|| 2021-09-26 11:58|| Front Page Top

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