WICKED LEAKS - The Trumpkins Turn on Assange

[DonViejo]

WICKED LEAKS

The Trumpkins Turn on Assange

The albinoid antipodean publisher of Wikileaks served the Russians and the Trump campaign well. Now? He's expendable.

MICHAEL WEISS

04.21.17 8:05 PM ET

There is no one more zealous than a convert.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo previously welcomed WikiLeaks’ disclosures about Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee when these proved helpful to the Republican nominee. Now he has experienced a road-to-Damascus moment.

“WikiLeaks,” Pompeo said at a think tank event last week, “walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service.” Pompeo also regards Julian Assange, the publisher of WikiLeaks and the lonely maintainer of its hyper-active Twitter account, as a “fraud.”

In a rather folksy fly-over metaphor, the former Kansas representative likened the albinoid antipodean anarchist to the Wizard of Oz, perhaps forgetting that the man behind the curtain turned out to be an all-right guy in the end rather than a helpmeet of European dictatorship and a purveyor of conspiracy theories about the Rothschilds.

Pompeo isn’t the only one who’s changed his mind about the man holed up for five long years at the Ecuador embassy in London. The U.S. Justice Department, headed by Jeff Sessions—a man who conveniently forgot while testifying before Congress that he twice met with the Russian ambassador to the United States—now considers arresting Assange a “priority.”

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[riversedge]

1. The fact that Pompeo and Sessions want him is enough for me to say-Let Assange rot

in the embassy.

[shraby]

2. They bring in Assange, he knows who fed him information.

I would venture to guess that is something the alphabet crowd would like to know.

[onecaliberal]

3. Exactly he can quite easily bite back. He knows everything.