REVEALED: CIA plotted kidnapping and ASSASSINATION of Julian Assange
Yahoo! this week revealed a CIA plot to kill the whistleblower.
The CIA is an organization based on killing people. Be it foreign leaders who they don’t like, insurgent groups in other countries they view as threats or whistleblowers who their power is threatened by.
One of those whistleblowers is Julian Assange. Now, this man is a hero in every sense of the word. He has alerted us to the war crimes of multiple governments, including the American one, meaning that citizens know exactly what their tax money is going to.
He is especially well known for publishing the documents that Chelsea Manning blew the whistle on that proved war crimes committed by the United States military.
Both of those heroes have been imprisoned for their journalism. Assange is currently being tortured in a high security UK prison and the Biden administration is attempting to extradite him, while Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison, 7 of which she served before her sentence was commuted. This is all for doing the job of a journalist. These are punishments you’d expect for murderers and serial rapists, not for journalists releasing information about war crimes.
There has been a massive smear campaign against Assange over the last four years from the liberal media. They have claimed that he worked with the Russians and the Trump administration to get the 45th President elected in 2016. They have claimed that he is politically motivated, favouring the Republican party. Apparently he worked for the people who then almost immediately attempted to get him extradited and tried for espionage, which would nearly certainly end in either a life sentence or the death penalty. And now, we know for a fact that, under Trump, the CIA tried to have him killed.
It is reported that this plot went right up to the highest levels of the Trump administration, specifically to CIA director Mike Pompeo, who went as far as asking about the legality and practicality of that kind of operation. Other senior officials within the administration also requested ‘sketches’ and ‘options’ in terms of taking out Assange.
Yahoo! reported that, while Assange has been on the radar of the CIA for a long time, but potential assassination only came up after the publication of ‘vault 7’, which were extraordinarily sensitive CIA hacking tools, which the Agency has termed the “largest data loss in CIA agency.” Of course, this journalism is worthy of assassination. Of course.
It is believed that the only reason that this didn’t end up happening is because White House lawyers objected to it.
There were a number of plans crafted by National Security agencies. These involved potential shootouts in London with Kremlin agents if Assange attempted to run to Russia, crashing a car into the vehicle transporting the journalist, and shooting the tires out of the plane as it sped down a runway with Assange on board if he attempted to run. These plans were mostly focused on if the Wikileaks founder attempted to depart to Russia, which doesn’t really make sense given that Assange has published articles harmful to the Kremlin’s biggest allies in Syria, meaning that he has directly harmed them, meaning that they are unlikely to help him. However, the CIA does believe that there were Russian agents surrounding the Ecuadorian embassy, alongside American and British ones, although the Russians were supposedly attempting to get Assange out, whilst the Americans and British were trying to capture him. Now, we don’t actually have evidence that that’s what the Russians were attempting to do, we can probably believe that they were there. One former senior CIA official said “It was beyond comical. It got to the point where every human being in a three-block radius was working for one of the intelligence services - whether they were street sweepers or police officers or security guards.”
It even got to the point where White House officials approached Trump and warned him not to carry out any plan to kill Assange, because they believed that it could cause a major international incident. Bear in mind here that their concern wasn’t that they would be murdering a journalist. They didn’t care, because that’s what the US intelligence agencies do on a regular basis.
The American government even considers Assange and WikiLeaks a “hostile intelligence service” in the words of Mike Pompeo. William Evanina, who retired earlier this year from his position as the top counterintelligence official, frustratedly exclaimed “We were stagnated for years (under President Obama). There was a reticence in the Obama at a high level to allow agencies to engage in (certain kinds of intelligence collection against WikiLeaks, including signals and cyber operations).” He was frustrated at not being able to imprison or kill an individual for alerting citizens about war crimes.
In 2013, however, Obama’s administration decided to fuck the rules, and that the intelligence agencies were going to prioritize collection on WikiLeaks. This happened after Edward Snowden, another hero, fled to Hong Kong and later Russia with a WikiLeaks editor, who stayed with him for 3 months in Russia. Snowden, of course, had with him a series of incriminating classified materials, revealing that the US government was spying on its own citizens.
Pre-2013, the FBI would not have been able to get a search warrant to get into the group’s databases in the United States used subpoena power to search WikiLeaks’ financial records. That changed after Snowden escaped.
The intelligence agencies wanted to reclassify WikiLeaks, and other heroic journalists such as Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, as information brokers rather than as the journalists that they are, because that would allow them to use more investigative tools against them. Fortunately, the Obama administration policy was, in the words of Evanina “If there’s published works out there, doesn’t matter the venue, then we have to treat them as First-Amendment-protected individuals. There were some exceptions to that rule, but they were very, very, very few and far between.” Bear in mind that Evanina was attempting to portray upholding the First amendment as a bad thing here.
Both Poitras and Greenwald were disgusted by this claims, with Poitras saying that the attempts to rebrand the three journalists as information brokers are “bone-chilling and a threat to journalists worldwide,” and that “the CIA also conspired to seek the rendition and extrajudicial assassination of Julian Assange is a state-sponsored crime against the press.” Greenwald also chimed in, saying “I am not the least bit surprised that the CIA, a long-time authoritarian and anti-democratic institution, plotted to find a way to criminalize journalism and spy on and commit other acts of aggression against journalists.” These two heroes are dead right here.
Yahoo! reported that the Obama administration became more hawkish against Assange in their final days, as they, at least in part, blamed Assange for Hillary Clinton losing as he published the infamous emails that were part of the biggest scandal of that election, while Pompeo and the Trump administration went after him hard for the obtaining the Vault 7 files, which “hurt the agency to its core.” It was so devastating for the agency that Pompeo even attempted to hide it from the President, reportedly saying “Don’t tell him, he doesn’t need to know” to one briefer. It was even claimed that Pompeo “would want to push the limits as much as he could” against Assange while CIA director. It is also said that the Trump administration was sending a multitude of signals that it wouldn’t be bound by Obama’s restrictions, or more accurately the Constitution’s restrictions, which was welcomed by many intelligence officials, as they held much resentment towards Assange, mainly because he has alerted the world about their war crimes.
Evanina told Yahoo! that Vault 7 caused “a brand-new mindset with the administration for rethinking how to look at WikiLeaks as an adversarial actor. That was new, and it was refreshing for the intelligence community and the law enforcement community.” Updates on Assange were even included in President Trump’s daily brief.
According to a former CIA official, when Pompeo called WikiLeaks a “non-state hostile intelligence service,” that wasn’t some off-the-cuff remark. That was a pre-planned remark, chosen advisedly, reflected the view of the administration. They initially wanted to consider him a Russian agent, but couldn’t find any evidence for him being one.
Soon after that speech, it is reported that a small group of CIA agents were asked by Pompeo to figure out the “art of the possible” on Assange. Another former official claims that the director told him that “Nothing’s off limits, don’t self-censor yourself. I need operational ideas from you. I’ll worry about the lawyers in Washington.” That is the director of the Central Intelligence Agency directing his agents to commit crimes.
U.S intelligence also plotted to launch a cyberattack against WikiLeaks servers being used to hold unpublished Vault 7 documents, although they eventually decided that they couldn’t do that without the President’s signature.
Moving back to the main claim from Yahoo! this week, which was the reported planning to either kidnap or assassinate Assange.
This started in mid-2017, when Pompeo and his deputy, Gina Haspel, decided that they wanted vengeance on Assange for the Vault 7 leaks.
Pompeo and other CIA agents proposed abducting the WikiLeaks founder from the Ecuadorian Embassy and bringing him back to the United States via a third country, a process known as rendition. As one ex-agent put it, “(the idea) was to break into the agency, drag (Assange) out and bring him to where we want. Another plot was for American agents going into the Embassy, dragging him out and turning him over to British authorities.
They only decided against this because of the political firestorm it would create, given that Assange is an Australian citizen, Australia being a critical American ally, and the building was located in London, the capital of another close ally, and the Brits weren’t particularly happy about the potential ploy. Yet another former surveillance official said “here was a discussion with the Brits about turning the other cheek or looking the other way when a team of guys went inside and did a rendition, “But the British said, ‘No way, you’re not doing that on our territory, that ain’t happening.’” There were also fears that kidnapping someone might be illegal, given that kidnapping someone is, in fact, illegal.
Some discussions went even further, however. Senior US officials, including Pompeo, considered having him killed, in the ways described right at the beginning of this article.
It isn’t clear how serious the intentions actually were, though, with one former agent telling Yahoo! that he believed that they were just spitballing and that the ideas were never going to be put into action. As he put it, “it was just Trump being Trump.”
However, at the same time, agency officials both requested and then received ‘sketches’ of plans to have Assange murdered, along with other WikiLeaks members with access to Vault 7 materials, but reportedly there were no discussions on whether they ever discussed the actual possibility of carrying out such a ploy, nor was there on the legality of having a journalist murdered.
It is worth mentioning that it seems like these plans never made it to the White House, with several White House officials who knew about some of the other things I’ve detailed here not knowing about the ploys to kill Assange. President Trump also gave Yahoo! a statement saying that these reports are “totally false” suggesting that he is either lying, which wouldn’t be surprising, or they didn’t make it to his desk, which also wouldn’t be surprising.
White House lawyers were very much opposed to the idea, given that every ploy broke multiple laws, with some, such as Michael Ellis and John Eisenberg, being frightened by the amount of 1 on 1 time that Pompeo had with the President, believing that he may be spending that time to cheerlead for things concerning Assange that were blatantly illegal. However, as another intelligence community agent put it, “When Pompeo took over, he cut the lawyers out of a lot of things,” meaning that it is unclear how much the lawyers actually knew.
Matters were complicated in 2017 when the Swedish government dropped their rape investigation into Assange, accusations he had denied from the start.
As a result, the Americans developed a back-up plan, in which the Brits would hold Assange on a skipping bail charge, giving the Justice Department a 48 hour delay to rush through an indictment. Lawyer Eisenberg was concerned about the legality of rendering Assange without charges in place.
The Americans became certain that the Russians were going to try to escape. “The Ecuadorians would tip off the Russians that they were going to be releasing Assange on the street,” claimed a former intelligence agent, “and then the Russians would pick him up and spirit him back to Russia.”
The CIA and MI6 then created many ploys to stop this from happening. They envisioned clashes, anywhere from fistfights, to full-on shootouts to cars running into each other, with Russians.
There were many suggestions as to how to deal with Assange if he managed to get in a car. One of them was another car crashing into his, probably killing him, but they dismissed this, saying that it was “something we’d do in Afghanistan, but not in the UK.” They also suggested letting him get to the airport, before either planting a car on the runway to stop the plane taking off, flying a helicopter over the top so that they can’t get away or just shooting out the plane’s tires. They even discussed poisoning him.
In 2015, the Ecuadorians had hired a Spanish security company, UC Global, to protect Assange in the embassy. However, unbeknownst to the Ecuadorians, UC Global began working for US intelligence 2 years later, giving them inside information on the Assange situation. The Spanish firm also reportedly placed spying devices in Assange’s room secretly, meaning the American’s had audio and visual feeds of the WikiLeaks founder 24/7.
By late 2017, the Ecuadorians had made plans to allow Assange to receive a diplomatic passport from Ecuadorian authorities, with the aim of him leaving the embassy to a third country. He was going to be assigned to the Russian embassy. However, he refused, having been unaware of the plans throughout their creation.
On December 21, the Justice Department secretly charged Assange, massively increasing the chances of him being legally extradited. That same day, UC Global recorded a meeting between Assange and Ecuadorian intelligence to discuss the journalist’s escape plan. Hours after the meeting, the US ambassador relayed his knowledge of the plan to his Ecuadorian counterparts. The plan was then disbanded when they found out that the Americans knew about them.
At this point, Assange began to fear either him or his colleagues being assassinated. Some Vault 7 material, which CIA officials believed to be even more damaging than the files WikiLeaks had published, had been distributed among Assange’s colleagues with instructions to publish it if one of them were killed.
Jeff Sessions, the Attorney General, who has been described as “very, very anti-Assange,” was opposed to any CIA plot to harm or kidnap Assange, believing that they should do extradition through legal channels.
People like Sessions eventually won the policy debate, with Assange being arrested by British police on April 11 2019 for failing to surrender to the court, after being the new Ecuadorian government ended his asylum and evicted him.
Later that day, the Americans unsealed their initial indictment against Assange, which was solely focused on his offer to help Chelsea Manning crack a password into a classified US database, an act they claim goes beyond journalism, even though what was retrieved by Manning was information about war crimes, and reporting on war crimes should be the job of a journalist.
However, things got worse when he was then charged with extradition for publishing classified information, something mainstream networks do on a daily basis. The difference is that the stuff that Assange published was actually harmful for the American government.
In January this year, a British judge ruled that Assange couldn’t be extradited as he would be a suicide risk in American prison. In July, a different judge ruled that the US appeal could proceed. The Biden administration is continuing the Trump policy.
Firstly, I should say a big thank you to Yahoo! for doing genuinely excellent journalism. This is what most of the liberal media is afraid to do, and the fact that they actually did what their job is surprising. It is a shame that I feel the need to thank journalists for doing what should be their job, but this is one case in which that needs to be done.
The ramifications of the Assange story are absolutely massive. It is basically the American government giving the middle finger to the Constitution upon which it was founded, particularly the first amendment of said Constitution. That document promised a free and open press, but as soon as a journalist reveals American war crimes, they are imprisoned.
This is also evidence that the deep state, the Military Industrial Complex, or whatever you want to call it, does not care even remotely about ‘justice’ or any of the other bullshit they claim to be focused on. They have claimed that the reason that we should’ve stayed in Afghanistan is for justice. They have said that we need to stay in Iraq for justice. They have said we need to stay in Syria because of justice. They say that we need to continue to do every part of every conflict that they are currently doing because of justice. But they obviously don’t care. They wanted to kidnap and kill a journalist for doing their job, and reporting on American war crimes.
There is a very obvious reason that they are going after Assange and not any mainstream outlet when they commit the exact same non-crime. Assange released documents that are directly harmful to the deep state, whereas the mainstream media publishes only what the deep state want them to publish.
There are a couple of things that need to be done instantly. One of them is the freeing of Julian Assange. The other is the disbanding of the CIA, as they are an organization seemingly completely focused on murdering innocent people, overthrowing elected governments and replacing them with cronies, and generally being the unjust people they claim to hate.
Remember that the deep state is a bipartisan group, supported, propped up and funded by both Republicans and Democrats. Joe Biden could disband and fire them all today. He chooses not to, because he is part of them, just like every other post WW2 President.
Free Assange. Instantly.