The United States government (specifically the Fourth Branch) has won an appellate level legal case in the U.K. as they seek to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for crimes against U.S. national security interests.
However, Assange’s lawyers have a few more avenues left to block the extradition.
As much as I would like to see a Julian Assange trial reveal all of the corruption inside the dark parts of the U.S. political and intelligence system, I can also see how our government would have a very strong institutional preservation motive to kill him first.
Wall Street Journal – The U.S. government won an appeal in its bid to extradite Julian Assange, clearing an important hurdle in Washington’s yearslong battle to put the WikiLeaks founder on trial on spying charges.
The decision by the U.K. High Court to overturn a lower-court ruling isn’t the end of the case. Lawyers representing Mr. Assange said they would seek permission to appeal the ruling at the U.K. Supreme Court, setting the stage for weeks or even months of further legal wrangling, lawyers say.
In their ruling, Lord Chief Justice Ian Burnett and Lord Justice Tim Holroyde said diplomatic assurances given by the U.S. that Mr. Assange wouldn’t be held under the strictest maximum-security conditions if extradited were sufficient to clear the path to extradition. The High Court said Mr. Assange should remain in prison while the process continues. “We are pleased by the ruling and have no further comment,” a Justice Department spokeswoman said. (read more)
On September 26, 2021, Yahoo News published an extensive article about the CIA targeting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 2017 and the extreme conversations that were taking place at the highest levels of the U.S. government about how to control him. There is a much bigger story transparently obvious when overlapped with CTH research files on the Intelligence Branch of government.
What I am going to outline below, is a deep dive using the resources and timeline from within that article and the specific details we have assembled that paints a clear picture about what interests existed for the Deep State, the Intelligence apparatus and what I call the Fourth Branch of government.
As the Yahoo News article begins, they outline how those within the Trump administration viewed Assange as a risk in 2017. Here it is critical to accept that many people inside the Trump administration were there to control events, not to facilitate a policy agenda from a political outsider. In the example of Assange, the information he carried was a risk to those who attempted and failed to stop Trump from winning the 2016 election.
Julian Assange was not a threat to Donald Trump, but he was a threat to those who attempted to stop Donald Trump. In 2017, the DC system was reacting to a presidency they did not control. As an outcome, the Office of the President was being managed and influenced by some with ulterior motives.
Yahoo, via Michael Isikoff, puts it this way: “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.”
As we overlay the timeline, it is prudent to pause and remember some hindsight details. According to reports in November of 2019, U.S. Attorney John Durham and U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr were spending time looking carefully at CIA activity in the 2016 presidential election. One quote from a media-voice increasingly sympathetic to a political deep-state noted:
“One British official with knowledge of Barr’s wish list presented to London commented that, “It is like nothing we have come across before, they are basically asking, in quite robust terms, for help in doing a hatchet job on their own intelligence services””. (Link)
It is interesting that quote came from a British intelligence official, as there was extensive pre-2016 election evidence of an FBI/CIA counterintelligence operation that also involved U.K. intelligence services. There was an aspect to the FBI/CIA operation that overlaps with both a U.S. and U.K. need to keep Wikileaks founder Julian Assange under tight control.
To understand the risk that Julian Assange represented to FBI/CIA interests, and effectively the Fourth Branch of government, it is important to understand just how extensive the operations of the FBI/CIA were in 2016. It is within this network of foreign and domestic operations where FBI Agent Peter Strzok was clearly working as a bridge between the CIA and FBI operations.
By now, people are familiar with the construct of CIA operations involving Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese professor generally identified as a western intelligence operative who was tasked by the FBI/CIA to run an operation against Trump campaign official George Papadopoulos in both Italy (Rome) and London. {Go Deep}
In a similar fashion, the FBI tasked U.S. intelligence asset Stefan Halper to target another Trump campaign official, Carter Page. Under the auspices of being a Cambridge Professor, Stefan Halper also targeted General Michael Flynn. Additionally, using assistance from a female FBI agent, under the false name Azra Turk, Halper also targeted Papadopoulos.
The initial operations to target Flynn, Papadopoulos and Page were all based overseas. This seemingly makes the CIA exploitation of the assets and the targets legal and much easier.
One of the more interesting aspects to the unfinished Durham probe is the possibility of a paper trail created as a result of the intelligence community tasking operations. If Durham has indeed gone into this intelligence rabbit hole, we could see evidence of a paper trail.
Personally, I am doubtful Durham will put what you are reading into any actionable scenario. Nor do I anticipate a report that could outline the risk of Julian Assange to the activities that took place within the political weaponization of the intelligence apparatus.
HPSCI Ranking Member Devin Nunes has outlined how very specific exculpatory evidence was known to the FBI and yet withheld from the FISA application used against Carter Page that also mentions George Papadopoulos. The FBI also fabricated information in the FISA and removed evidence that Carter Page was previously working for the CIA. This is what FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith was convicted for doing.
One week after the FBI and DOJ filed the second renewal for the Carter Page FISA [April 7, 2017], Yahoo News notes how Mike Pompeo delivered his first remarks as CIA Director:
[…] On April 13, 2017, wearing a U.S. flag pin on the left lapel of his dark gray suit, Pompeo strode to the podium at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington think tank, to deliver to a standing-room-only crowd his first public remarks as Trump’s CIA director.
Rather than use the platform to give an overview of global challenges or to lay out any bureaucratic changes he was planning to make at the agency, Pompeo devoted much of his speech to the threat posed by WikiLeaks. (link)
Why would CIA Director Mike Pompeo be so concerned about Julian Assange and Wikileaks in April 2017?
In April of 2017, Pompeo’s boss, President Donald Trump, was under assault from the intelligence community writ large, and every deep state actor was leaking to media in a frenzied effort to continue the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy. The effort was so all consuming that FBI Director James Comey was even keeping a diary of engagement with President Trump in order to support an ongoing investigation built on fraud… yet, Mike Pompeo is worried about Julian Assange?
Again, here it is important to put yourself back into the time of reference. Remember, it’s clear in the text messages between FBI Agent Peter Strzok and Lisa Page that Strzok had a working relationship with what he called their “sister agency”, the CIA.
Additionally, former CIA Director John Brennan has admitted Strzok helped write the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) which outlines the Russia narrative; and it was also Peter Strzok who authored the July 31st, 2016, “Electronic Communication” from the CIA to the FBI that originated FBI operation “Crossfire Hurricane.” Strzok immediately used that EC to travel to London to debrief intelligence officials around Australian Ambassador to the U.K. Alexander Downer.
In short, Peter Strzok was a profoundly overzealous James Bond wannabe, who acted as a bridge between the CIA and the FBI. The perfect type of FBI career agent for 2016’s CIA Director John Brennan to utilize.
Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson hired CIA Open Source analyst Nellie Ohr toward the end of 2015; at appropriately the same time as “FBI Contractors” were identified exploiting the NSA database and extracting information on a specific set of U.S. persons. One, if not the primary extractors, has now been identified as Rodney Joffe at Neustar. “The campaign plot was outlined by Durham last month in a 27-page indictment charging former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann with making a false report to the FBI. The document cites eight individuals who allegedly conspired with Sussmann, but does not identify them by name. The sources familiar with the probe have confirmed that the leader of the team of contractors was Rodney L. Joffe.” {Go Deep}
It was also Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson who was domestically tasked with a Russian lobbyist named Natalia Veselnitskaya. A little reported Russian Deputy Attorney General named Saak Albertovich Karapetyan was working as a double-agent for the CIA and Kremlin. Karapetyan was directing the foreign operations of Natalia Veselnitskaya, and Glenn Simpson was organizing her inside the U.S as part of his Trump-Russia creation.
Glenn Simpson managed Veselnitskaya through the 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr. However, once the CIA/Fusion GPS operation using Veselnitskaya started to unravel with public reporting…. back in Russia Deputy AG Karapetyan died in a helicopter crash.
Simultaneously timed in late 2015 through mid 2016, there was a domestic FBI operation using a young Russian named Maria Butina tasked to run up against Republican presidential candidates. According to Patrick Byrne, Butina’s handler was FBI agent Peter Strzok who was giving Byrne the instructions on where to send her. {Go Deep}
All of this context outlines the extent to which the FBI/CIA was openly involved in constructing a political operation that settled upon anyone in candidate Donald Trump’s orbit. A large international operation directed by the FBI/CIA, and domestic operations seemingly directed by Peter Strzok operating with a foot in both agencies. [Strzok gets CIA service coin]
Recap: ♦Mifsud tasked against Papadopoulos (CIA). ♦Halper tasked against Flynn (CIA), Page (CIA), and Papadopoulos (CIA). ♦Azra Turk, pretending to be Halper asst, tasked against Papadopoulos (FBI). ♦Veselnitskaya tasked against Donald Trump Jr (CIA, Fusion GPS). ♦Butina tasked against Trump, and Donald Trump Jr (FBI).
Additionally, Christopher Steele was a British intelligence officer, hired by Fusion GPS to assemble and launder fraudulent intelligence information within his dossier. And we cannot forget Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch, who was recruited by Asst. FBI Director Andrew McCabe to participate in running an operation against the Trump campaign and create the impression of Russian involvement. Deripaska refused to participate.
All of this engagement directly controlled by U.S. intelligence; and all of this intended to give a specific Russia impression. This predicate was presumably what John Durham was reviewing in November of 2019.
The key point of all that contextual background is to see how committed the CIA and FBI were to the constructed narrative of Russia interfering with the 2016 election. The CIA, FBI, and by extension the DOJ and a multitude of political operatives put a hell of a lot of work into it.
We also know that John Durham was looking at the construct of the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA); and talking to CIA analysts who participated in the construct of the January 2017 report that bolstered the false appearance of Russian interference in the 2016 election. This context is important because it ties in to the next part that involves Julian Assange and Wikileaks. This is where the motives of Mike Pompeo in mid/late 2017 come into play.
[…] By the summer of 2017, the CIA’s proposals were setting off alarm bells at the National Security Council. “WikiLeaks was a complete obsession of Pompeo’s,” said a former Trump administration national security official. (link)
On April 11th, 2019, the Julian Assange indictment was unsealed in the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA). From the indictment we discover it was under seal since March 6th, 2018:
On Tuesday April 15, 2019, more investigative material was released. Again, note the dates: Grand Jury, *December of 2017* This means FBI investigation prior to….
The FBI investigation took place prior to December 2017, it was coordinated through the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) where Dana Boente was U.S. Attorney at the time. The grand jury indictment was sealed from March of 2018 until after Mueller completed his investigation, April 2019.
Why the delay?
What exactly was the DOJ waiting for from March 2018 to April 2019? This time frame is the peak of the Robert Mueller/Andrew Weissmann special counsel investigation.
Here’s where it gets interesting….
The Yahoo article outlines, “there was an inappropriate level of attention to Assange“, by the CIA according to a national security council official. However, if you consider the larger ramifications of what Julian Assange represented to all of those people inside and outside government interests who created the Trump-Russia collusion/conspiracy, well, there was actually a serious risk.
Remember,why in May 2017 Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissmann effectively took over the DOJ. The entire purpose of the Mueller investigation was to cover up the illegal operation that took place in the preceding year. The people exposed to the risk included all of those intelligence operatives previously outlined in the CIA, FBI and DOJ operations.
The FBI submission to the Eastern District of Virginia Grand Jury in December of 2017 was four months after congressman Dana Rohrabacher talked to Julian Assange in August of 2017: “Assange told a U.S. congressman … he can prove the leaked Democratic Party documents … did not come from Russia.”
(August 2017, The Hill Via John Solomon) Julian Assange told a U.S. congressman on Tuesday he can prove the leaked Democratic Party documents he published during last year’s election did not come from Russia and promised additional helpful information about the leaks in the near future.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican who is friendly to Russia and chairs an important House subcommittee on Eurasia policy, became the first American congressman to meet with Assange during a three-hour private gathering at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where the WikiLeaks founder has been holed up for years.
Rohrabacher recounted his conversation with Assange to The Hill.
“Our three-hour meeting covered a wide array of issues, including the WikiLeaks exposure of the DNC [Democratic National Committee] emails during last year’s presidential election,” Rohrabacher said, “Julian emphatically stated that the Russians were not involved in the hacking or disclosure of those emails.”
Pressed for more detail on the source of the documents, Rohrabacher said he had information to share privately with President Trump. (read more)
Dana Rohrabacher later published this account of the events:
Knowing how much effort the CIA and FBI put into the Russia collusion-conspiracy narrative; and knowing that Assange could essentially destroy the baseline predicate for the entire Trump-Russia investigation – which included the use of Robert Mueller; it would make sense for corrupt government officials to take keen interest after this August 2017 meeting between Rohrabacher and Assange. And that would explain why those same government officials, willfully or by direction, would quickly gather specific evidence (related to Wikileaks and Bradley Manning) for a grand jury by December 2017.
Within three months of the grand jury seating (Nov/Dec 2017), the DOJ generated an indictment and sealed it in March 2018. The EDVA then sat on the indictment while the Mueller/Weissman probe was ongoing.
As soon as the Mueller probe ended, on April 11th, 2019, a planned and coordinated effort between the U.K. and U.S. was executed; Julian Assange was forcibly arrested and removed from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and the EDVA indictment was unsealed (link).
As a person who has researched this three year fiasco; including the ridiculously false 2016 Russian hacking/interference narrative: “17 intelligence agencies”, Joint Analysis Report (JAR) needed for Obama’s anti-Russia narrative in December ’16; and then a month later the ridiculously political Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) in January ’17; this timing against Assange is too coincidental.
It doesn’t take a deep researcher to see the aligned Deep State motive to control Julian Assange because the Mueller report was dependent on Russia cybercrimes, and that narrative is contingent on the Russia DNC hack story which Julian Assange disputes.
♦ This is critical. The Weissmann/Mueller report contains claims that Russia hacked the DNC servers as the central element to the Russia interference narrative in the U.S. election. This claim is the fulcrum point that structurally underpins the entire Trump-Russia collusion narrative. However, this important claim is directly disputed by WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, as outlined during the Dana Rohrabacher interview, and by Julian Assange’s on-the-record statements.
The predicate for Robert Mueller’s investigation was specifically due to Russian interference in the 2016 election. The fulcrum for this Russia interference claim is the intelligence community assessment (Peter Strzok); and the only factual evidence claimed within the ICA is that Russia hacked the DNC servers; a claim only made possible by relying on forensic computer analysis from another Michael Sussmann partner, Shawn Henry at Crowdstrike. Yes, another DNC contractor and collaborator with the Clinton campaign.
The CIA always held a massive conflict of self-interest problem surrounding the Russian hacking claim as it pertains to their own activity in 2016. The FBI and DOJ always held a massive interest in maintaining that claim. Robert Mueller and Andrew Weismann did everything they could to support that predicate; and all of those foreign countries whose intelligence apparatus participated with Brennan and Strzok also carried a self-interest in maintaining that Russia hacking and interference narrative.
Julian Assange was/is the only person with direct knowledge of how Wikileaks gained custody of the DNC emails; and Assange has claimed he has evidence it was not from a hack.
This Russian “hacking” claim was ultimately so important to the CIA, FBI, DOJ, ODNI and U.K Intelligence apparatus…. Well, right there is the obvious motive to shut Assange down as soon as intelligence officials knew the Mueller report was going to be public.
And that is exactly what the Fourth Branch of government did.
The Yahoo Article does a great job outlining who, how, when and where the CIA and intelligence community were targeting Julian Assange. However, what they did not connect -and ideologically they would not want to connect- was exactly WHY the U.S. government, not Trump, was targeting Assange.
Assange should have been pardoned. There was one chance to do it and it wasn’t done. It’s as simple as that.
Trump was being lobbied from all sides regarding pardoning Assange, Snowden and Ulbricht. It’s a shame the rank and file Republicans won out.
Trump never understood who his enemies were and who his friends were. He still doesn’t.
I agree 100 percent. He still doesn’t.
You and your fellow troll you replied to know nothing about President Trump. I could waste my time quoting what he was saying back in 2015, but I doubt it would mean anything to you.
What he said is irrelevant. I admire the man more than any other President and we owe him an incredible debt of gratitude for exposing the government for how corrupt it really is. But this God-like worship of him as “faultless” isn’t playing with a full deck.
Vision without action is hallucination.
He and he alone had the Executive Power to Pardon Assange. Did he? NO. So what he said there matters not one bit. I am the furthest thing from a troll having been a continuous donor to his PAC and still am. He’s the only serious chance we have at this time (although DeSantis is climbing the ladder quickly) but he is not perfect and has made mistakes.
That is to be expected since his experience is outside the swamp. Learning curves are difficult. But there are a few mistakes he seems to continue to make and that is what was pointed out above, he still doesn’t know who his true friends and enemies are.
For Trump to reach the next level of effectiveness, he has got to drop the ego aspect, admit where he got duped and grow from there. IMO
I’ve said the same things Levi.
Trump IS my guy, but he’s not omniscient and these people who attack truth speakers like you are probably the same “Trust the Plan” folks who swallowed all that Qanon hooey, too. They LIVE for “Hope Porn”
I think the deceit is so deep, who can tell who the enemy is?
Trump was great for the country, but Sociopaths walk the halls of power, and unless you’re a Sociopath yourself, you can never fully understand how they operate. I believe he knows now.
Bingo.
Having been a victim of a sociopath, is how I learned to fully understand EXACTLY how they operate, but that is the only way you can.
And so yes, I believe he now has some inkling.
Mind you, it took me over 10 years, to fully figure it out.
Same for me Dutchman, the last two were spent trying to get untangled and away. I’m glad I am not the only one because I consider myself a fairly smart person but I got fooled.
The Clintons, and especially Obama, are classic examples of narcissistic sociopaths . It why they do the things they do. Read the 10 signs. The Biden regime has BHO’s fingerprints all over it, even if he isn’t in absolute control.
Here are ten signs of a narcissistic sociopath:
1. They Live In a Deluded Reality
Narcissistic sociopaths don’t see the world in the same way other people do. In their distorted version of reality, they are entitled to whatever they want, regardless of what it takes to get it or who is hurt in the process. They will justify their actions, even ones that are inexcusable, and show no remorse.
Their narcissism may also lead them to develop delusions of grandeur about being important, special, or exceptional in some way, or paranoid delusions that others are out to get them.
2. They Are Obsessed With Power & Control
People with NPD and ADP are often power hungry, and put a lot of time and effort into acquiring positions that give them power or control over other people, bowling over anyone who gets in their way. Once they obtain power, they may demand to be addressed in a certain way or make others follow rules that don’t make sense.
Their obsession with power and control also tends to show up as a refusal to acknowledge any other authority, including rules, laws, policies, or requests made of them by others.
3. They Take Advantage of & Use Other People
Narcissistic sociopaths have a habit of using, exploiting, and taking advantage of others. This tendency shows up in all of their relationships, including romantic relationships and any friendships or family relationships they’ve been able to maintain. They seek out codependent, nurturing types who are more easily manipulated and controlled through guilt, shame, or fear, and will hold onto these relationships only as long as the person is “useful.”
4. They Have No Moral Boundaries
There are no lines a narcissistic sociopath won’t cross to get what they want. Their moral compass is non-existent, leaving them without the sense of “right and wrong” that most people have. After doing something harmful, illegal, or sadistic, they won’t feel remorse, regret, or guilt. In fact, they may even feel a sense of satisfaction knowing they were able to deceive, manipulate, or hurt someone.
5. They Have a Limited Range of Emotions
Malignant narcissists don’t experience feelings of love and affection, or more vulnerable emotions like guilt, shame, or sadness. The only strong emotion they seem to be able to access is anger, which will show up as outrage when they’re slighted, offended, or not granted something they feel they deserve.
Their stunted emotional range also keeps them from being able to have empathy for other people, and may also lead them to destructive behaviors that allow them to feel something.
6. They Have a Huge Discard Pile
Narcissistic sociopaths are known to discard people and things that are no longer useful to them. Over time, their discard pile stacks up and may include former friends, lovers, colleagues, and mentors who they betrayed, abandoned, or abused. Their discard pile may also include expensive material things they got bored or tired of, as well as roles or activities that served a purpose at one time, but are no longer useful to them.
7. They Become Hostile When Threatened
Narcissistic sociopaths are most dangerous when they feel threatened, which may be more often than most people. Because of their natural tendency to be paranoid, less trusting, and more easily offended, threats can be a routine occurrence for them. When they feel threatened, the narcopath will often become hostile and aggressive, lashing out and becoming abusive towards others.
8. They Feed Off of Negative Energy
The narcissistic sociopath is a person who feeds off of negative emotions and energy. There is something about drama, other’s fear or pain, or the chaos of disaster that seems to excite them or give them energy. This kind of parasitic attraction to negativity is a telltale sign of a sick person, including a person who may have traits of NPD and APD.
This behavior is also what makes a sociopathic narcissist sadistic and dangerous, causing them to enjoy the pain and suffering of others.
9. They Get Bored Easily
A narcissistic sociopath is constantly seeking sensations and cheap thrills because nothing can hold their interest and attention for long. They become easily bored with people, things, and activities, and will abandon them once they are no longer entertained.
Their boredom can also turn into a restlessness that causes them to find destructive outlets, which is why people with these traits tend to be impulsive, aggressive, and engaged in crime, violence, or drug use.
10. They Are Empty Inside
A narcissistic sociopath may have worked hard to craft a powerful, important-looking exterior, but this is a front. Lacking the ability to feel a full range of emotions makes them hollow and empty on the inside, keeping them from really experiencing things, expressing themselves, or connecting and relating with others.
This internal emptiness is what they’re trying to hide from others with their narcissism, and also what they’re trying to escape within themselves by using drugs or maintaining a level of entertainment, power, or destruction.
Thank you “Talk” a great cliff notes to narcissism.
President Trump didn’t/doesn’t know… Bwahahahahaha – ROLMFAO…. But then again, you’re entitled to your opinion… lolololol
I think it was the military that influenced PDJT the most re Assange; military thinks Assange was guilty of espionage that cost American lives on the battlefield.
also I am sure Trump was being lied to about Assange. Why else was Rohrbacher prevented from talking to him?
Gen. Kelly would not allow a meeting between President Trump and Congressman Rohrabacher.
This situation is precisely what the presidential pardon power is for–to right a miscarriage of justice.
This sounds nice, and I wish it could have been so, but what would actually have transpired if it did?
How would his life been preserved if he was actually released into the wild with so many nations’ corrupt intelligence agencies committed to silencing him?
The same people who protected 45 from multiple attempts on his life could also protect JA. There still are patriots who know how to foil assassination attempts.
And I REALLY DO BELIEVE that even too this day, those people are protecting the President BUT this JA Screed by Sundance…WOWZA…
I would surmise that there are some people right now squeezing the checkies just a lil’ bit too hard due to what AG Durham has and will be coming out.
I just hope JA makes it to the end AND IS NOT EXTRADITED HERE TO THE US!!!
Yep! Free…. to be hunted down. I’m surprised he hasn’t “slipped” in the prison shower and broken his neck like Epstein. God must have big plans for Assange.
one man said “JA is dead- would be a fool to pardon a dead person”
Not quite.
President can only pardon offences, not alleged offences. Furthermore, the question as to whether the DOJ should, or even could, have prosecuted itself for having made spurious allegations of offences against foreign (or domestic) nationals prior to the Trump presidency is answered in part by its failure to prevent similar being brought against its own Commander in Chief during the same time frame.
Indeed had Trump had been disposed to pardon Assange it could also explain in part why Assange was not openly tried in absentia, which ought reasonably to be the normal order of serving justice in such matters, prior to seeking his extradition under English law (there being no such thing as a UK High Court).
From a UK perspective (acknowledging Paca’s point below), if the case ever does reach the UK Supreme Court (which can act as arbiter of last resort at the REQUEST of the English or Scottish High Court(s)) it will require to be thrown out on the Scots law principle of (noble) intent – introduced into English law via the Cherry v UK Government decision on prorogation by that same Supreme Court.
Seen from that perspective, and reinforced with whats been done since January 6, any pardon attempted for celebrity spies like Assange and Snowden would have been presented as further ‘evidence’ of Trump’s Russian credentials, and would not have prevented the ongoing collusion between potentially nefarious actors in US and England to have the guy confined to prison without a public trial by jury in any event.
12 months into the second year of seasonal flu based economic restrictions and its an entirely different story so open support from the Trump camp for transparency, if not clemency, would surely still be welcome – and is unlikely to do either of them more harm than has already been suffered.
didnt Ford pardon Nixon? And Nixon was convicted of nothing/.
Excellent point – arguably ditto Trump wrt Clinton (from “lock her up” to “they’ve been through enough..”).
Impeachment being excluded from the Presidential Pardon process, I dont think other forms of criminal proceedings had started against either though – and they certainly weren’t being held in custody pursuant to such proceedings when the gesture was made – so, in retrospect, what is generally understood to have been a Presidential Pardon for Nixon may in reality have been good old fashioned political expediency, with the full support of the establishment, and an early example of expectation management for the masses.
Given the ease with which any such pardon for Snowden or Assange could have been annulled, it would be wrong to assume a similar gesture could have been honoured in respect of anyone not favoured by such an establishment.
Similarly, given what has transpired since Nov 4 2020, even the implied support of that establishment for any such gesture would clearly have been, at best, questionable, in any event.
Marc rich was pardoned by Clinton. last days in office.
Obama pardoned several people who had not be charged, only allegations and grand jury up to but not including indictment.
at the time of pardon Marc rich was living outside jurisdiction having fled to escape law enforcement wrt junk bond fraud allegations. billions
the similarities between the two cases might be interesting to consider..
not that it matters now.
Its certainly messy.
Looking at the timeline from a slightly different perspective, ie:
Blair-Bush admin’s war crime
Brown-Obama admin exposure of same
Cameron-Obama admin arrest of manning and (alleged) covert pursuit of Assange
May-Trump admin release of Hilary emails
Johnson-Trump admin formal extradition request
Johnson-Biden admin extradition approval subject to appeal being referred back to secret lower court(s)
and recalling the geographical location of his unlawful imprisonment,
One could be forgiven for wondering whether a Presidential Pardon would have had authority under any circumstance.
and maybe that matters, more than ever, now.
If he was pardoned he will be dead by now. It is safer for him to be in custody, like Epstein with working cameras.
VERY True, HOWEVER, when Congressman Robacher returned and TALKED WITH GEN. KELLEY…and that is where the information stopped…
President Trump was surrounded by the Swamp even in the White House AND HE KNEW IT!!!!….therefore, President Trumps EO’s on that he signed ARE still in effect and have NOT BEEN RESCINDED….it’s going to suck for some people and I do believe Kelley will be on that list…it’s called TREASON!!!!!!!!
I too believe he will be killed. I hope he has a dead man’s switch.
Assange will be Epsteined
as sure as day follows night
Assange is as big of a threat, there will never be a trial.
FBI asset & mass murderer Whitey Bulger springs to mind.
HAD one. Can’t recall the details, but read how the IC nutralised his switch, which is why he was unable to activate it when they dragged him out of the embassy.
Assange has himself to blame for not letting out the dead man’s switch long before they drug him out.
US will give Jullian worse the than the DC prison treatment. I’m surprised he’s still alive now.
Me too
HMP Belmarsh in the UK where he is being held is no Four Seasons.
They must believe there’s a kill switch
What was issued is not an approval of extradition. It was a remittance. This means, the UK High Court found that the district judge ruled in error on 2 points out of the 5 the US government appealed on.
Because of this, the case is sent back to the magistrate courts and is effectively retried before being sent to the UK Secretary of State, who makes the final decision.
This ruling just represents the continuation of using the process itself to punish Assange.
As long as the US can endlessly appeal decisions, they can keep Julian as a silent hostage in the UK without ever having to proceed with their actual case against him.
Thank you for shedding additional light on this matter. Much appreciated. As you say, and as James O’Keefe also recently noted about his own situation: the process is the punishment.
And before James O’Keefe stating that truth came Mark Steyn in his excellent books. I believe I first saw it in his “Lights Out” about the Canadian prosecution (read “persecution”) of him in a human rights case which he actually won.
So true. Like you, I am also a huge fan of Mark Steyn. He’s so intelligent and just tells it like it is, doesn’t mince words and is quite fearless. I have so much respect for him.
Clever man, once disparaged by the no nothing talk show compere Ellen as having only a high school “edumacation”. Stupid woman in every sense.
Mark had a classical education which covered all the arts, classics, history etc…subjects which dear Ellen doesn’t have even a cursory idea about.
Mark’s circle includes the great and the good. His recounting of dinner at Buckingham Palace as one of the guests of Prince Philip is an entertaining read. A true intellect and an extremely brave man.
If you haven’t seen him with Nigel Farage in Canada’s Munk debates, which I believe is still available on YouTube, it would be time well spent watching him eviscerate his opponents, two rabid liberals.
I first ran across him in Britain when he wrote a column for the Daily Telegraph. I was hooked immediately. Interesting, a brilliant raconteur, and a sharp eyed observer of all things geographic and political.
What good taste you have, Sarah.😊
Hubby and I are big fans of Mark Steyn. Highly recommend reading steyononline.com.
Every Friday he has an hour on GB news from the UK, there is a link at the website.
He coined the phrase regarding the process being the punishment to describe the
legal shenanigans he has been put through by Canadian and US ‘legal’ systems, mainly about free speech.
steynonline.com
typo I think
Yes. You are correct. He was put through hell in Canada. His book Lights Out is all about that persecution. And now here in what I believe is the month or tenth year of a court case where he is being sued by the fraud Michael Mann.
Mark’s view of the US court system is pungent. But he is resilient. I pray he will triumph but the case is being heard in DC. crossing fingers.
Nevertheless, his punishment is still secondary to his silence.
The Global Derp State will pursue both goals endlessly.
and this is why he will never actually have a trial.
discovery can be a sonaofB.
prediction scenario:
the extradition continues indefinitely and his extended stay causes his death.
US actually drops the legal case but continues to smear him on the media.
the USG is in a potentially bad spot here. If the trial happens there is every reason to believe defense counsel will be calling specific figures and exploring critical facts of evidence about war crimes AND other things
other things:. remember…and thus seems to have been “lost” over time. assange actually worked with USG AND media to redact specific content of WikiLeaks before releasing it. he understood the necessity that while there was a higher ppublic interest at stake, it had to be balanced with the reality that real people might also be placed at risk by publishing OTHER THINGS.
it IS TRUE that one of the Corruptors at the guardian took it upon himself to break the agreement and published SOME OTHER THINGS and then attempted to try and argue this was attributed to assange. lee, I think his name was (Leigh?).
fact is, assange went to great lengths to get the facts out but in a way that it would not cause more harm. he worked with dozens of international media groups …one failed to keep their end of the bargain.
AND THAT is truly how this entire legal issue is based.
the guardian broke the bond…used the decrypt key provided and published unredacted
this gave the USG AND UK legal means to describe his work as a national security threat. it was of course a case where the guardian set him up and frame him.
discovery would prove that.
there is also the issue of actually what transpired with the allegations that assange was directly involved in hacking classified material. that too comes into discovery.
there is also the issue of exactly what communications and coordination between USG, UK and swedish rape investigators and how that entire narrative for it’s wheels.
in discovery the USG has great risk.
my.opinion is that USG will never actually go to trial.
it’s more likely assange remains in UK prison awaiting extradition resolution that never happens. benefiting both UK and USG to just have him die in prison.
they definitely don’t want him out. especially now.
not going into 2022/24 elections!
Julian would most certainly go right back to work and talk the straight talk about ccp19, mRNA and things that we can only speculate about.
WikiLeaks is still powerful…it needs a leader though…and no one has abandoned Julian…
I think you are referring to Luke Harding. There’s a fabulous interview of him by Aaron Mate of Push Back (I think) where Aaron exposes him as a Russiagate fraudster.
Yes, David Leigh and Doug Harding. Published the cypher…which meant the entire secure unredacted tranche of raw classmat could be viewed, downloaded by anyone, which was never the intent and purpose of wikileaks.
the limited release of the cypher was intentionally limited with a tacit agreement that media would work together collectively and determined with coordination with US Govt and other nations states, including UK, which portions of the state cables would need to be erased and removed from the material before publication.
assange was very clear about this.
unfortunately, the media, particulary the guardian with the release of this book, unwound the agreement.
a big part of the narrative that persists is that assange is an unethical hacker, and that he holds zero responsibility about the consequences of releasing classmat.
this was always false.
wikileaks only unredacted material LONG AFTER it was leaked and widely known. It did so, in response from many who wanted to compare the claims of the media version against the original.
some forget that many false claims were made about the media’s version of the unredacted material..mostly how they described it with editorialization and intentionally ommitted context to draw a false and misinformation campaign. After this was already spilled and the material was out there, assange unredacted the entire thing to expose even more corruption within the media and how they were peddling false claims and malicious slander about assange.
and that is just about the cables tranche.
just that aspect of wikileaks and the case that the corrupt state manufactured about assange and WL.
Political ping pong, in other words.
thx for that analysis, Paca
God still does Miracles and Healings in spite of many pastors & priests & preachers negating this fundamental Bible principle .
Yes! Have we all forgotten how to pray? The best recourse we have right now for him is to PRAY FOR HIM. That is our duty as Christian brothers and sisters.
Sounds right. They don’t ACTUALLY wantvto extradite him, cause then they would be stuck with what to DO with him; they do not want a trial.
So, they include errors in there filing.
Remeniscent of Flynn, which is an object lesson in why they don’t actually WANT to bring him back here; they just want him locked away in a deep hole.
So the Government wants Assange dead. Theres poor Hillary rocking in a chair weeping reciting her stupid acceptance speech. This could be a win win all the way around. Well, except for ol’ Julian.
Let he weep. I’m so glad she didn’t make it. Hope they don’t recruit her for the kamala job….what a disaster that could be. (would be)
Considering that Kommie’s greatest weakness is how hated she is, the unlovable Killary seems a not very likely candidate.
Additionally, this is Zero’s White House, Clintons needn’t apply.
Wouldn’t want to be Joe if that happened.
Assange will soon meet his Maker. It won’t be by his own hand.
Tragic.
Goodaye Frank, It is in the spooks best interest to keep Assange alive, he does indeed have a “dead man’s switch” but is not in the form of a computer trigger in there sence .
Another human being that Assange has never met holds the information with instructions.
What the spooks don’t know is who . Whether them instructions are to be followed in the case of a “natural ” Death is anybody’s guess .
The abuse he has endured pretty much ensures that human hands have hastened his departure no matter when or how he passes.
America’s Gulag isn’t limited to DC nor our own shores.
No it is not!
After WWII, half of Europe was given over the Gulags at the Yalta betrayal
Do I see a bit of CIA injected scopolamine in Julian’s future if he makes it here? I wouldn’t put anything past our brutal and inhuman “intelligence” services.
Good point. They’d do anything to neutralize his deadman trove.
I believe so as well. And whoever the dead man’s switch is, as Mungrel said it was, I bet his nights are not restful. Or his days either.
Then there came a moment so personal, so singular and final, that I have attempted to relate it to only one other human being, a priest, and had thought to reveal it to my children only at the end of my life. . . One day as I came down the stairs in the Mount Royal Terrace house, the question of the impossible return [to life without Communism] struck me with sudden sharpness. . . As I stepped down into the dark hall, I found myself stopped . . . by a hush of my whole being. In this organic hush, a voice said with perfect distinctness: “If you will fight for freedom, all will be well with you” . . . What was there was . . . an awareness of God as an envelopment, holding me in silent assurance and untroubled peace.”[1] Whitaker Chambers
Thank you, Colkitto. What a beautiful piece of writing. Oh that we would all have a moment such as that. An assurance and a reassurance, both.
I keep listening in hope.
I am glad you liked it ma’am. Cheers
Oh I did. I truly did. I felt it to the bottom of my soul.
If he is smart, and he is, there are multiple people and machines holding the goods ready for release.
I would guess that Assange has “several dead man switches”, who are unknowingly going about their own business unaware of the huge windfall in their possession. Assange is cognizant of the terrible truths to which we mere mortals are not privy.
We will come to know those truths, one way of another.
I hope we can toast Assange in person then !
My heart weeps for this man.
A wife crept into his cell while he was in the country before he went to England. He fathered two children with that wife and they would be about 7 and 8 now. Actress Pamela Anderson had access to him , I think shortly before he was sent to England, and she said he looks and acts well and is not the starved-looking person we’ve been shown on TV.
We know how Assange got Hillary’s e-mails, but how could anyone, even Assange, prove it?
My recollection is of Anderson visiting him in the prison in england, and saying he was NOT well, doing poorly and she feared for his health.
I think you may be repeating earlier visits from Anderson, at the embassy?
I wouldn’t want to be the agent escorting him back to the USA. That aircraft could have a major malfunction at 31,000 ft. half way here.
Just like Epstein? Terrible.
Epstein is probably alive.
Astounding synopsis. You, sir- are a dangerous man.
One thought- VERY early, “I can also see how our government would have a very strong institutional preservation motive to kill him first.”
NO, sir. Our government would surely NEVER do that to someone.
I mean, he MIGHT commit heinous suicide, or be ‘hit’ by ‘unknown foreign entities’, but…
Don’t kid yourself. Our government will do whatever it wants, nothing anyone says will stop it. Not even chima. I know misspelled on purpose. they don’t deserve any capitol letters.
…or a health alteration committee…
ty for comprehending sarcasm without me having to put a ‘/s’, Caius.
Tibi gratias
For those who support Julian Assange, perhaps some prayers would be in order.
I’m surprised that Assange hasn’t been assassinated already.
The truth can be a dangerous thing.
She proposed droning him in the Ecuadorian Embassy!
Exactly , a point of note :
An excellent argument can be made that without Assange and Wikileaks Trump would not have become President.
A point although not proven could of easily be true.
I personally think that Patriot America owes Assange a huge amount of gratitude.
No doubt one of the reasons given by his advisors, for why PDJT could not have ANYTHING to do with Assange, “politically toxic”.
I thought UK is against death penalty?
I’m sure the DOJ crossed their fingers . . .
But not commission by omission !
Former Rep. Rohrabacher has been quiet for a very long time;
so am wondering what type of cards he’s been holding back; hopefully ones that could have this whole case against Wikileaks/Assange blo w up in their faces, just in time for the midterms would also be nice.
Hoping that what Treeper Paca says is what’s going on is what is happening. Yes, usually the process is the punishment, maybe this time the process will be what keeps Mr. Assange alive?
“maybe this time the process will be what keeps Mr. Assange alive?”
Like the Nazis,Soviets, and Chinese, the US has political prisoners who only receive corrupt justice.
I pray we Americans don’t get our hands on him. We can’t be trusted.
I must agree, yet, who can be?
The essential issue of our times can be summed up in your 7 word question.
Our order has collapsed and nothing has yet replaced it. All countries and systemically important institutions have been corrupted it seems. There are no great powers waiting in the wings to tip the balance of power by entering the war against the Globalists. We’re on our own.
White hats exist, and in great numbers, but not as a united force with leadership and a plan. This community here on CTH is lovely however each in their own home facing these problems individually. I’m not sure we can win that way and restore sanity and justice. Ironically, I think our best weapon and best chance involves the other side collapsing of the weight of its own very apparent lies, on Covid for ex, it’s disastrous handling of the economy, and inability to manage our foreign affairs (afghan, Iran, Russia, China etc.)
Rohrabacher doesn’t hold any cards. He didn’t know at first what he was revealing but he knows he’s at deep risk from the 4th Branch now.
Sorry, but wishing and hoping ,…?
Roerbacher was silenced, he isn’t holding anything back,…waiting for what, exactly?
Similarly, I don’t believe Assange has a dead man switch, any more. Otherwise, why not release it now, as hevis effectively a dead man walking.
I believe they nutralised any such switch, prior to dragging him out.
THEY couldn’t know dragging him out, very publically, wouldn’t trigger the release,…and so wouldn’t have risked it.
UNLESS they had already nutralised it.
Praying that this new Divine Intervention continues for patriot Julian Assange 🙏
The Government would “Epstein” him? Naw, I cannot believe that. s/
Watch some of those “man on the street” interviews on late night shows where they ask “Who’s the vice president of the United States?”. Think anyone would know who Julian Assange is, much less Pompeo, Mueller, etc.? It’s called “sweeping it under the rug”. Time may reveal everything, but it also leads to shoulder shrugs.
Assange has alluded to a dead mans switch. Were I he, I would have it tied to my being extradited to the US.
Epstein didn’t kill himself. And if anything bad happens to Mr. Assange while in custody of the US, it’s no different.
I’m still trying to parse out why Ghislaine Maxwell has lived this long.
Goodaye Bad Dog, I’ll give you a hint , Maxwell’s thirty year best buddy relationship with Katherine Keating who just happens to be the Daughter of ex Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating , digging deeper Paul and Killery are also beach buddy’s , turn left at hells corner then you find out that Paul Keating is also a peodophile.
This warren is very deep , I have been further but not willing to say how far just yet.
I think my comment might anwser your query.
Cheers.
Whoa!! Many warrens I’m sure, Mungrel. I bet you could name others.
But please don’t here!!!
Thanks my friend!
dont worry, Comey’s dau. is there to fix things.
They just want to kill him to keep him quiet. He has done more good for the ‘so called’ journalist world than anyone in that market….IMO
The Australian governments silence on Assange is also telling , many here have taken up Assanges plight, public protests, petions, numerous court challenges even one to the high Court, Patriots politicians have tabled reports in both Federal and State Parlimentry sittings.
Assange has tremendous support from the people here, it’s just not reported there.
Our puppet government has done nothing except dish out punitive ” pass the buck” statements regardless of public pressure.
So this is where we are at here.
Also for readers their it is well known that Alexander Downer is a cross dressing peodophile .
To the poster here that was a bit sceptical on my comment a while ago concerning FBI Australia inc. I done some more digging and discovered that yes indeed the FBI does have officers in Australia and has since at least the 1990s !
Domestic charter much !
It seems we’ve all been living in an alternative fraudulent universe for decades. Dirty, depraved, amoral “led” by people who wear all of that like a second skin. The CIA caught some downloading child porn on their computers.
That there were no consequences whatsoever tells me that they were just the ones that got caught. The sickening rot must go very very deep.
It’s a lot deeper than the majority could even imagine, as you already understand you cannot unsee the seen.
I will never stop advocating for blowing the door of its hinges regardless of minor consequences like people’s feelings , after all you cannot defeat your enemy without knowing your enemy.
And don’t worry I’m keeping my gob shut for the time being 😒 .
Cheers.
You are an astute man who has been in the “game” for a long time. I know this. I know you are a righteous man as well, dear friend. You are where God has placed you. We are in a heretofore unknown place. And we are seeing our enemy clearly. All of us here at any rate. There are no pretenses by that enemy. No covering, no hiding behind honeyed words or actions.
What is going on in plain view is brutal, getting more so every day. I can barely believe what I am reading, but you are experiencing it. So it is natural concern and, yes, worry for your safety that moves me to say be careful, even though I know you haven’t made it this far without being so.
From one friend to another 💓🙏 LBT, all sharpened and ready to go.
JMO – up to this point they did not have control of the dead man’s switch or the data sources that prove all of the alphabets collusion with the globalist scum. If all of it were to break open it would change the world as most have known it.
Dead man switch.
It would be nice if true, none of them ever seem to have one that actually gets switched, at least one that works to where it cannot be shut down or controlled. If anyone, I would have thought Philip Haney would have had one and lit the planet w/it.
Flip a sample now.
Meanwhile the Washington Post and New York Times release classified top secret information all day long without any consequences because it’s given to them by the US Intelligence Agencies!
This!
and you think what they are allowed to “release” is the truth?
I’m so sorry for what they’ve done to you, Julian. 🙁
Dead man walking 🤫
John McAfee found suicided in his Spanish Jail 24 hours after the court allowed his extradition.
Instead of reporting the biggest human trafficking case in the history of the world, Lapdog Media reports on Hillary Clinton “crying” while reading her 6 year old ’victory’ speech. Hillary Clinton doesn’t know a darn thing about this Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial or her piloting a submarine with her special cargo to their special island.
What ever happened to Hillary’s laptop and her 33,000 emails and what could possibly be on them?
By the way, where is Epstein watching the trial?
Best wishes for Julian Assange- we know Hillary Clinton threatened to “drone him” as she said.
Rumor was McAfee (who was one of us) harddrives were in that condo in Fl that collapsed. There was a foreign government involved, and that there was not a rush to rescue people from the rubble, like what is usually done with a situation like that
If Assange is extradited to the U.S. he will be Epsteined in prison. He knows too much about Deep State crimes and they will silence him.
Win-win for the 4th Branch. Assange dies in custody in UK or US and they twist it that he was somehow protecting Trump.
So does there seem to be a common thread with Pence, Pompeo, Barr, McConnell and Graham?
Anyone seeing any kind of pattern?
You think? 😆
He needs to drip out information, publicly and to Durham to let all those who fear him know he has them where he wants them. It would also serve well to find a tough, honest prosecutor outside of DC to take out as many corruptocrats as possible.
Weird how lives turn out. I am sure Julian never imaged this would be his life. I hope one day we will know what he knows, and that someday he will find a life outside w/fresh air in a safe environment. He deserves that.
Dead man walking if he’s extradited; he’s between a rock and a hard place.
After that huge in depth work up SD did on JA and at best it only generates what could only be described as a bunch of tweets , I have to wonder if anyone here actually read the whole thing .
Posting Guidelines actually state to read the entire article from Sundance, and all comments, prior to posting your comment.
Lots of people post comments here, who have either never read the guidelines, or don’t follow them.
Even for long time commenters, a periodic rereading is not a bad idea?
The criminal FBI certainly did not want their guy, the mass murderer and criminal Whitey Bulger to be caught. Than when he finally was he got “Epsteined”
He will be tortured.
Perhaps they want to get Mr. Assange to D.C. where he’ll be stripped of his passport, given an ankle bracelet, and, surprise, gets the Seth Rich treatment. And all is good … untouched by guilty hands.
If Heaven goes by merit rather than favor, Jullian Assange will get in and those persecuting him will go straight to Hell.
And, this is why I do not trust Mike Pompeo no matter how many religious tweets he posts. He was the head of Clowns in Action and Secretary of State (not so secret Clowns in Action). Had he upheld the US Constitution as his oath as an attorney required him the coup against Trump would have been halted and bad actors prosecuted.
funny how those sworn to uphold the Constitution speak in terms that violate it: re “wants him punished” instead of “wants him tried fairly”
Assange will rot in prison if he stays in the UK so he has a better chance of being acquitted here and walking free. Trump was being attacked from all sides his entire tenure and couldn’t have pardoned Assange and shouldn’t have even considered do so with Snowden.
Lee Smith, of “The Plot Against The President”, recently twitted responding to a recent small development in the coup revelations, asking folks to lookup “Limited Hangout”. Many here already know what it means.
Curiously, if you do the search, one rabbit hole appears that suggests that Assange and Snowden may actually be un/knowing tools of the DS.
It’s a perspective I dismissed immediately… then with time… hmmm
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Limited_hangout#Modified_limited_hangout
I don’t know, but worth a few minutes consideration.
Superb disinformation !
As usual a great summary of the black arts plied by the SS. Just one point; as usual Michael Isikoff is unreliable and tries to protect Hillary Clinton. He writes about CIA acting against Julian Assange from 2017 and on, forgetting all that had gone on before:
Hillart Clinton Wanted to Murder Julan Assange With a Drone
SS = IC
Shall we print the bumper stickers now, or is it innappropriate?
“Assange didn’t suicide”?
Too bad PDJT didn’t talk to Roerbacher, things might have been different.
PDJT was surrounded by gatekeepers, its a wonder Dennis Rodman got thru (probably before 2016, although not sure D.R. has said a date).
One thing you haven’t seemed to have figured out yet is the possibility that Peter Strzok is really CIA using FBI as his cover story. The CIA has people working throughout the government using their bureaucratic covers to hide their CIA affiliation. This began with Allen Dulles, and continues through today.
oh yes, everyone has figured that out — ages ago.
And Russia know it didn’t provide the leaks to Wikileaks either. But probably knows who did as well. Now Putin is blackmailing the current administration for everything Russia wants. A pipeline to sell oil, no problem. Remove sanctions, no problem. Half of Ukraine, no problem. As long as Russia keeps its mouth shut Russia will get whatever Russia wants.
In reading the above, I am reminded of how naive I was during the Trump administration, assuming that Trump was able to surround himself with people who had the same outlook as he did….assuming Pompeo was working WITH Trump, rather than misleading him. At some point, there was the optimism that Assange would be extradited and the Trump admin would swoop in to save the day, all would be revealed, we would learn about Seth Rich, and the house of cards would fall. Sadly, this never happened. At the time, there was great pushback as to why Trump’s family was so politically involved with him. It is ow obvious that basically they were the ONLY ones that Trump was really able to trust.
I would generally agree with you on this, however I wonder how trustworthy Kushner was/is?
I suspect a lot of the info against Kushner, that you find on the internet, is based on an anti Jewish reason rather than anything specific to Jared Kushner. In deciding that Kushner was not honest, it would then also assume that Trump’s daughter wasn’t, and that Trump was too ignorant to understand that his son in law was working against him. Kushner was pretty much responsible for the Abraham Accords. The only negative info I ever saw about him stemmed from his being Jewish, rather than anything else.
As Wikileaks appears to no longer be operational, I wonder why Assange just doesn’t come out with all the information that he has…specifically about the DNC/Russia situation. It is a good assumption that this information came from Seth Rich, and that he was actually murdered due to this release of these documents to Wikileaks. At this point, where it is no longer an issue to ‘protect’ your sources, why not just spill everything???
Assange did nothing wrong.
Any potential government whistle blowers fear for their life and of course those big fat government pensions are great hush money.
I can not write what I want to say about this.
Thanks for your great reporting and analysis Sundance.
Praying for Julian.
May his Kill-Switch be never needed, but if needed, let it damn them all to Hell.
I make no bones about it:
I don’t like Assange.
Never have
Never will
About the only thing I want to hear from him is WHO was his source for the leaked DNC and Hillary Emails.
After that, I won’t cry if they “Epstein” him.
Anti DNC/ Clinton folks are very aggressively prosecuted under Biden DOJ, no?
In the case of Ghislaine and the way in which her trial occurred, it’s almost as if those men involved were purposefully omitted? How can that be?
And who is the prosecutor involved in steering the case and gaining favors from these very strong men?
It’s a Comey, of course.
Our Justice system is not “on a need to know basis.”