The CIA pitched Trump officials plans to assassinate Julian Assange while he was hiding in a London

[Judi Lynn]

The CIA pitched Trump officials plans to assassinate Julian Assange while he was hiding in a London embassy in 2017, report says

Tom Porter
Mon, September 27, 2021, 8:07 AM·3 min read

The CIA in 2017 pitched senior Trump administration officials plans to kidnap or assassinate the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who was holed up in a London embassy, a Yahoo News investigation found.

The report, which Yahoo News said was based on interviews with more than 30 former US officials, said the CIA was enraged by WikiLeaks' publication in 2017 of thousands of documents detailing the agency's hacking and covert surveillance techniques, known as the Vault 7 leak.

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CIA Director Mike Pompeo - who later became secretary of state - was determined to take revenge on Assange after the leak, Yahoo News reported.

In 2017, Pompeo designated WikiLeaks a "non-state hostile intelligence service," meaning it could be targeted with the same aggressive actions used against foreign states' intelligence agencies.

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https://news.yahoo.com/cia-pitched-trump-officials-plans-130727657.html

[JohnSJ]

1. Ironically Asante did what he could to help trump get elected in 2016

[RockRaven]

2. Says a lot about what ASSange knew about TFG/Russia/Repukes/Pompeo that Pompeo wanted

to whack that scumbag/shithead who had been so very useful for them once upon a time.

One of the first rules of mob bosses is that underlings who know dangerous secrets become VERY expendable the second they get caught.

[WA-03 Democrat]

3. Totally agree!