With an announcement of his departure from prison, many people are excited about the possibility of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange revealing information about the Obama/Biden surveillance state. I would urge everyone to temper those sentiments.
The Biden DOJ is a malicious leftist political targeting machine, with only one intention carried out with the Lawfare that underpins their mission. Main Justice, and especially the DOJ National Security Division within the DOJ, is the center of all corrupt justice operations.
There is absolutely no deal between the DOJ-NSD and Julian Assange that could be against the interests of Joe Biden or his administration. Do not pretend such a construct is even possible. Assange is released ONLY because the terms mean he is not a threat to Biden.
Julian Assange is on his way to U.S. District Court in the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory in the south Pacific about 2,000 miles north of Australia, where he will plead guilty to one felony count: “conspiring to disseminate classified information.”
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Wikileaks announced the Assange release with the following message:
Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK.
This is the result of a global campaign that spanned grass-roots organisers, press freedom campaigners, legislators and leaders from across the political spectrum, all the way to the United Nations. This created the space for a long period of negotiations with the US Department of Justice, leading to a deal that has not yet been formally finalised. We will provide more information as soon as possible.
After more than five years in a 2×3 metre cell, isolated 23 hours a day, he will soon reunite with his wife Stella Assange, and their children, who have only known their father from behind bars.
WikiLeaks published groundbreaking stories of government corruption and human rights abuses, holding the powerful accountable for their actions. As editor-in-chief, Julian paid severely for these principles, and for the people’s right to know.
As he returns to Australia, we thank all who stood by us, fought for us, and remained utterly committed in the fight for his freedom.
Julian’s freedom is our freedom.
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The Wikileaks X Account is tracking his travels – SEE HERE
WASHINGTON DC – […] Under the pact detailed in court filings made public Monday evening, he would be sentenced to just over five years in prison — but would be entitled to immediate release because that’s roughly how long he’s been jailed in England while fighting extradition to the U.S.
The case has been a diplomatic headache for the Biden administration, which has faced pressure from Australia, a key national-security ally, to end Assange’s years in legal limbo.
Adding another exotic twist to an already byzantine tale, Assange’s guilty plea to a single Espionage Act charge is set to take place Wednesday morning in U.S. District Court in the Northern Mariana Islands — a U.S. territory in the south Pacific about 2,000 miles north of Australia.
The unusual venue reflects Assange’s unwillingness to return voluntarily to the continental U.S., according to a letter Justice Department prosecutors posted on a court docket. The radical transparency activist harbors a deep distrust of the U.S. government. He and his allies have accused U.S. officials of plotting to have him killed with a drone. (read more)
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[NOTE – QUALIFIER: There’s obviously a lot of what I have always called “Assange-level European Wikileaks dramatic flair” around the events of his release, which can create eyerolls for those of us who have watched the decade-plus details unfold. Wikileaks is always the wounded indian in the rage-against-the-regime routine. They don’t do themselves any favors by banging a drumbeat with the same tones as World War Reddit.]
Back to reality….
While Julian Assange and Wikileaks could clarify a decade of guessing and assumption about details within their organizational work, I doubt they will. Keep in mind, progressive/leftism is now the opposite of what it was before Assange sought legal safety in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.
When Julian Assange went into confinement the leftists were a party that pretended they were opposed to war and totalitarian regimes. As Assange exits the Old Bailey prison, the leftists now love the DOJ, FBI, IC, CIA and totalitarian world security forces killing, bombing and incarcerating their political opposition. Thus his exit agreement should be filtered accordingly.
It would not surprise me to see Assange creating videos where he demands the arrest of horrible Donald Trump, while pitching the opportunity to attend lavish Wikileaks fundraising dinners with honorees AOC, Christopher Steele and Andrew Weissmann. Prepare your mindset accordingly.
After all, if you really think about it, Julian Assange has left a small prison in England for a larger cell in Australia.
A WALK IN THE VERY DEEP WEEDS….
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 DNC hacking claim is the fulcrum issue structurally underpinning the Russian election interference narrative pushed by the Weissmann and Muller Special Counsel. However, this essential claim was directly disputed by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, as outlined during a Dana Rohrabacher interview and by Julian Assange’s own on-the-record statements.
Julian Assange was forcibly removed and arrested in 2019 at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London immediately after the Weissmann/Muller report was released to Bill Barr.
Despite investigating the background of the Trump-Russia nonsense, John Durham never touched the DNC hacking claim – the core of the Mueller report.
Why?
Because Durham knew the U.S. Government threw a bag over Assange to protect the fraudulent Trump-Russia and Russian interference claims.
Again, this reality speaks to the corruption within the motive behind the John Durham investigation.
Durham was protecting Weissmann, Mueller and the core of their justification for a 2-year investigation. Durham knew why Assange was arrested. Durham stayed away from it, intentionally.
The Russians HAD TO have made efforts to interfere in the 2016 election, or else the factual basis for the FBI/IC surveillance operation against presidential candidate Donald Trump would be naked to the world.
That reality is why so much DOJ, FBI and Mueller special counsel energy was exhausted framing the false predicate.
“Seventeen intelligence agencies,” the December 29th Joint Analysis Report (JAR), the expulsion of the Russian diplomats which was an outcropping of the JAR, the rushed January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment, shoving microphones in everyone’s faces and demanding they answer if they believed Russia interfered – all of it, and I do mean every bit of it, is predicated on an absolute DC need to establish that Russia Attempted to Interfere in the 2016 election.
The “Russian Malicious Cyber Activity – Joint Analysis Report” (full pdf) is pure nonsense. It outlines nothing more than vague and disingenuous typical hacking activity that is no more substantive than any other hacking report on any other foreign actor. However, it was needed to help frame the Russian interference narrative.
There were no Russian diplomats involved; there was no Russian election interference; there was no Russian hacking of the DNC; it was all a fraud created by the intelligence community (IC), FBI and Main Justice to support Hillary Clinton’s lies and then cover their own targeting tracks.
Remember, 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 Mueller investigation and the U.S. intelligence community. Specifically, the motive intentionally not outlined by Yahoo News.
What I am going to share yet again, is a deep dive using the resources and timeline from within that Yahoo article and then specific details we have assembled that paint a clear picture about what interests existed for the Deep State, the Intelligence apparatus and the Mueller-Weissmann special counsel.
Continuing to read this fully cited review is not for the faint of heart. This is a Deep State journey that could shock many; it could alarm more and will likely force more than a few to reevaluate just what the purpose was for Mike Pompeo within the Donald Trump administration.
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 Mueller special counsel, 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} John Durham ignored him.
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. Again, John Durham ignored it.
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. If Durham went into this intelligence rabbit hole, there would be a paper trail that leads back to Robert Mueller. Durham didn’t go there.
John Durham and IG Michael Horowitz both outlined how very specific exculpatory evidence was known to the FBI and Main Justice, yet that evidence was withheld from the FISA application used against Carter Page and/or it was ignored. The FBI 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 indicted and 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 the media in a frenzied effort to continue the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy.
The Trump-Russia 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 Strzok and Lisa Page that Peter Strzok had a working relationship with what he called their “sister agency”, the CIA.
♦ Former CIA Director John Brennan admitted Peter 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 in a 27-page indictment charging former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann with making a false report to the FBI. The plot was also outlined in the finished Durham report. Eight individuals who allegedly conspired with Sussmann but does not identify them by name. The sources familiar with the probe 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] Durham eviscerated the predicate for all of this in his report, yet stayed away from the part that leads to Robert Mueller in 2017.
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 what John Durham was reviewing in November of 2019, and then released in his final report – while whitewashing the parts that led to the Mueller silo.
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 know John Durham looked 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 timeframe 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, in May 2017 Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissmann effectively took over the DOJ. The purpose of the Mueller investigation was to cover up the illegal operation that took place in the preceding year. The people exposed in the Trump-Russia targeting operation included all of those intelligence operatives previously outlined in the CIA, FBI and DOJ operations. These are the people John Durham did not indict.
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.
That contact between Rohrabacher and Assange explains why those same government officials 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 Julian Assange 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 researched this 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 not 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. Again, John Durham stayed away from it!
♦ 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 underpinning the Russia election interference narrative. However, this core and essential claim is directly disputed by 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 held a massive conflict of self-interest problem surrounding the Russian hacking claim as it pertained to their own activity in 2016. The FBI and DOJ always held a massive interest in maintaining the Russian hacking 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 claimed he has evidence it was from an inside DNC leak, not from a DNC hack.
The 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 Main Justice and the U.S. intelligence community did.
This is why John Durham never touched it.
All of them know what happened.
All of them know why Julian Assange was taken from the Embassy in London. A bag had to be thrown over Assange in order to retain the justification for the Weissmann/Mueller special counsel and the larger Russian election interference claims. None of them do not know this. They all know.
Start asking the right questions about the timeline of Assange being arrested. Ask about the DNC hack and Russian provenance according to Crowdstrike, not coincidentally a Ukrainian originating company. Ask key and specific questions about the FBI working with Crowdstrike and about the DOJ and EDVA case against Assange.
The people around the DC Deep State all know what happened. So does Wikileaks. SO DO WE, and SO DO YOU!
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Please Lord, don’t let Pompeo be any part of a second Trump administration!
My in-laws went to a dinner he was speaking at and lauding him afterwards. I went and broke their bubble when I explained the piece of shit snake Pomeo is to them. Not sure if it sank in completely how corrupt these bastards are that claim to be patriots. Anyone who has been cia in the past fifty years is suspect in my book.
Stretch that a bit farther- to 1963.
Even further, to the early 1950s, when they started meddling in the Middle East and the Balkans.
Or at least to it’s, “official” founding!
Actually, the entire org has been foul & corrupt since it was formed in 1947. Truman said it was by far the biggest mistake of his presidency.
Remember Operation Paper Clip brought in hundreds of former Nazis to supplement several federal agencies that had formed during and post-war. Nazis had already started mind-control experiments on prisoners in Germany in the 1930s and our newly-formed central intel agency was licking its chops to get those twisted evil bas tards working for “us”……which they did….
Well, Mister Pence, if you want to tackle those folks who “endanger the security of our military or the national security of the United States”, perhaps you’d like to start with the low-hanging fruit: John Kerry, Jane Fonda, Anthony Blinken are the first three names that immediately come to mind.
Judas Pence should also look in a mirror. Of course, that might be something so abhorrent that even Judas could not stand the disgust.
Milley.
And if Pence is on his high horse about leaked docs, he gets to start with the current president, comey, Hillary, Zero.
He isn’t serious.
I call him Mike Dunce. He is a very malleable, low-IQ follower. Zero leadership within his being.
Don’t forget the medusa herself, Hillary. SPIT!
First thought?
Shock that Pence imagines anyone cares what he thinks.
Mike Pence, Eternal Tool.
They want him assassinated
Yes, the Deep State knows they can not chance another Epstein type elimination. And with him free in Australia they surely have severable connections to accomplish their goal.
Probably under a, “Shut your mouth, keep your life,” agreement as they can get at him in Australia.
“… Often, the CIA makes these decisions internally, based on interpretations of so-called “common law” passed down in secret within the agency’s legal corps. “I don’t think people realize how much [the] CIA can do under offensive [counterintelligence] and how there is minimal oversight of it,” said a former official….”
~ SD linked yahoo article
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{ Annie Jacobsen, “Surprise, Kill, Vanish” }
“In bestsellers such as Area 51, The Pentagon’s Brain, and Operation Paperclip, Jacobsen has given riveting, eye-opening glimpses of some of the government’s more shadowy corners. Her new book is a detailed look at the risky and morally-ambiguous terrain of the CIA’s Special Activities Division. Known as the most effective black operations force in the world, SAD is responsible for hostage rescues, sabotage, and assassinations, and has been used for top-secret maneuvers by almost every president since World War II. Charting this unsettling territory from the Cold War to today, Jacobsen draws on unprecedented access to nearly fifty individuals involved at all levels of SAD activity, from Senior Intelligence Service (equivalent to the Pentagon’s generals), to counterterrorism chiefs, targeting officers, and Ground Branch operators, revealing SAD as not just a paramilitary and intelligence branch but a colossal foreign policy machine.” 2019
So, yeah, there’s that.
I would urge everyone to temper those sentiments.
LOL, exactly…
A dog bone but it beats the 2 x 3 meter cell.
….and it meets the needs of the left: they are not nearly as concerned about the size of Assange’s cell as they are about managing his life and denying him the effective use of the deadman switch.
….now the left can say, “You wanted Assange released? Ok. Here he is. …………………….. Next!!!!”
If O’Biden can get it said, he will have some comment about this on Thursday night, just for taunting purposes.
Assange (along with Manning) is a character for sure. Setting aside (if you can) the theft of state secrets, when one looks at the lies exposed via those secrets, would it be fair to ask: Has our government decided it is “ok” to lie to the American people whenever it chooses, for whatever reasons, about any subject matter?
Think about it: We can accept our government lying to another country, other non American peoples, etc. I suspect that has been a practice for a long time. But to lie to us, now, on a daily basis, about damn near everything?
Did this change begin with “smooth talkers” or “slick thinkers” or even “bad characters” in our elected political world? I am sure you can name some who you consider outright liars, liars on a daily basis. Lying is a form of deception, is it not?
Hasn’t all this lying created great distrust in our government? I think so…and that’s no lie from me!
Our government has probably been lying to us longer than any of us have been alive and it has become accepted by those who should serve as a check and balance.
Zero codified the right to lie and Congress has that right too.
Yep, for well over 100 years now.
Check and balance? Yeah, right. Whatcha been smoking?
“Has our government decided it is “ok” to lie to the American people whenever it chooses, for whatever reasons, about any subject matter?”
No one presently alive is old enough to remember when that decision was made.
Look back to the Lincoln assassination.
Exactly.
And Assange didn’t “steal” state secrets either. 👀
Others did that and forwarded him copies just like several have here over the decades and ‘gave’ them to media organizations here.
Don’t remember any of those media figures persecuted like Assange.
Our government has ALWAYS lied or purposely withheld pertinent information they didn’t think we needed to know. I didn’t trust the government long before Reagan came along and famously said, “if you ever hear the words, ‘Im from the government and I’m here to help’, run the other way.” A lot of people thought it was a joke. It wasn’t.
The difference NOW is that our government (if you can really call it ours) sees the general population as its enemy, just like it saw all those external people and nations it always lied to and lied about. Now it’s THEM against everyone outside their immediate circle in order to save their asses.
I think. the serious lying began with Bill Clinton. He started telling whoppers and nobody said anything. The media loved him and even wrote how it was ok to lie sometimes. When children start lying and no one says anything to them, they become serial liars the rest of their life. Clinton and his lovely wife were allowed to get away with serious lying so it seems to have become the standard in DC. Data has always been fudged by the govt. but Clinton’s govt. departments started publishing totally bogus statistics. The economy was great when Bush took over…but it wasn’t.
I don’t think our govt. could tell the truth if it was the best thing to do.
Having the FBI files in the WH made it too easy for The Hag/Blue Dress Bill to have NO challenges to their consistent lies. Blackmail is the prime currency in WDC.
Remember this Whopper….LBJ, “We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.” – 10/21/1964, 2 weeks prior to the Potus election.
When Trump made the infamous phone call re Ukraine, the 2 words he used were “Biden” and “Crowdstrike”. He was impeached instantly.
Yeah, we know.
Sundance is a NATIONAL TREASURE.
I fear for his safety.
May the good Lord watch over and protect him from the traitors in our government.
A leftist like Obama is really in trouble when they have to make a deal with another leftist like Julian to shore up their leftist flank. Ouch.
Obama in the UK a few months ago …
Now you know.
Good catch
A large and united delegation of Australian politicians from all parties and independants went to Washington to ask for Assange’s release.
So are you saying in conclusion, if DJT were to become President again in 2025 he could possibly expose high crimes that might “border” on possibly the crime of treason by so many in DC which then could possibly lead to the true ring leader being exposed?
And on a second note, is it plausible to think that COVID was conjured up as a tool to create mass fear and thus allow for massive acceptance of mail in ballots for the 2020 election to stop PT from getting back in power and thus allowing him to investigate the question above?
If all this were true, just think of the amount of work, coordination and COMMUNICATIONS that went into trying to stop PT and cover their possible crimes.
It sure seems like the Communications are the ultimate key to exposing everything. Why you ask? Just look at the effort they took to stop Assange who also it appears had some of those so called COMMS.
“IF” all of this is true ….
Does the sun rise in the east?
Do the tides rise and fall in sync with the moon?
Those high crimes crossed the border over to treason a long time ago.
Covid did several things –
It was a test to see just how compliant the world population was, and just who would resist the Globalist agenda.
It also conditioned people to accept the god of “the Science” and to live in fear of their non-compliant neighbor.
What people fear, they hate and will eventually try to destroy.
So it was both unifying of the compliant with their government and divisive of the compliant from the non-compliant. (The Nazis did the same thing with their own pseudo science.)
It was simultaneously a massive wealth transfer and a destruction of the middle class. (It would be interesting to see exactly what individuals and hedge funds benefited from pharmaceutical and hospital stocks, and just who invested heavily in these before the plandemic?)
The government also used it as an opportunity to crush small businesses and reward its favorites, like Wal-Mart and Amazon.
The government used it as a cover to destroy churches and permit strip joints and bars to remain open, encouraging immorality among the populace.
It was used to test the idea of Universal Basic Income with Covid Bucks.
It was used as cover to steal the election.
And maybe most horrifically, it injected a slow acting (though sometimes instant) deadly poison into billions of people.
It was a mass genocide.
And a rehearsal for the eventual deployment of the Mark of the Beast.
Not only treason but murder and foreign infiltration of congress.
The Debbie Wasserman Schultz full story is yet to be revealed. https://knox.villagesoup.com/opinion/the-curious-case-of-mr-imran-awan-and-friends/article_9379ec7a-98ae-51cc-9747-d04677854dfd.html
My take is DWS directed the Awans to take care of leaker Seth Rich in exchange for leniency in the spying IT scandal. Unfortunately the barbarian Awan family interpreted this wrong and killed Seth Rich forcing them to leave the country and sending DWS into the quiet zone. All buried and covered up nicely so far.
By the time Wasserman-Schultz resigned as party chair in July 2016, Imran Awan had been employed by her office, and eventually some 25 other Democrats, including members of the Intelligence and Foreign Affairs committees, as an IT specialist for a number of years. His group had access to the entire House IT system, apparently until February 2017.
With this yet to be fully exposed, why in the world would DOJ strike a deal with Assange? Could they somehow blame this on Trump since it happened in 2017? No, this deal is simply the last layer of coverup sealing forever what happened.
…. And yes, it sucks to accept that we are the bad guys! -Sundance 5/1/24.
Never lose sight of this, always keep it in the forefront!!! But it does suck because We The MAGA People aren’t “bad guys” nor are we “Domestic Extremists”! To me our Fourth Branch and IC are very bad guys and don’t represent us, the country or our Constitutional Republic!!! God help us! Hosanna! Godspeed Sundance for Truth telling!!!
“In order to even begin to understand what’s going on in the world right now, you have to be open to the idea of unlearning almost everything you were taught.”
I can’t give attribution, but I’d say this is the most succinct statement of the very necessary reassessment each one of us must undertake.
Call it re-education.
It’s not easy or comfortable.
But we are being shown. Averting our gazes from the truth has no upside.
All the better to fight back against an enemy which only now has exposed itself for what it has always been.
Armour up.
Love God.
Seek His truth and the scales will fall from your eyes.
To them, we are indeed the bad guys, just like the nazis considered us the bad guys, and japan considered us the bad guys. They will hate and fight us to the bitter end just as germany and japan did. They’ve convinced themselves that they are right and they are superior, and they must keep everyone quiet about their dastardly deeds.
Remember what they say; “Whatever it takes.” They mean it.
Any socialist who’s challenged calls their opponent a Nazi–as sure as night follows day, and they believe it.
I’m good with the socialists and the nazis going after each other,…. and I believe they should.
Racist is the other out. Anti-science is getting up there too. Any of those tropes come out and the actual issue has been conceded, but the concession is covered up by the trash.
Also love the, “You don’t know the definition of socialism because you’re not educated” trope.
Should you want to help the Assange family with their out-of-pocket expenses, there’s a fundraiser to cover the cost of the charter jet Assange is using to get to Australia. The AUS government demands timely repayment. Please follow this link:
https://freeassange.org/donate/
“It would not surprise me to see Assange creating videos where he demands the arrest of horrible Donald Trump, while pitching the opportunity to attend lavish Wikileaks fundraising dinners with honorees AOC, Christopher Steele and Andrew Weissmann. Prepare your mindset accordingly.” – Sundance. Has Biden’s thugs flipped Assange? Was President Trump played? Just wondering?
No thanks I’ll take a pass!!!
Intel is going deeper than skin deep. It goes to the core, thus, only people with a “need to know” are in the know! We here at TCTH are not in that loop. Sundance is a TREASURE!
Around the world, criminal gang members will kill the wives and children of people, that their >boss wishes to silence. … There is no need to ‘flip’ Assange. … Assange has a family. ……. Pure speculation, but there >might be someone or a number of people employed by our government, that does NOT want to lose their ‘Rice Bowl’ if the >truth is told.
…… There are also people in our government, that would know gangsters and killers. … Heck, criminals are employed by our government, and paid with our tax dollars. [The communist term ‘rice bowl’ was intentionally used.]
Please view again: The Last Refugee, = “Tucker Carlson Asks: Knowing What You Know Now – Do You Think the CIA Killed President Kennedy? (a video about 12 minutes long.) December 15, 2022 | Sundance
There are people that need our prayers; 1. The good people working to expose the evil corruption in our country, and 2. the corrupt evil people sending themselves to Hell.
Reading this from Sundance is going to take a serious cup or two of coffee.
But in the meantime..
Last night on the news of his release from the worst prison in Britain, I rejoiced. My first reaction…
Thoughts came after.
And yes, I have thought about it.
Australia was once a penal colony where convicted Brits were shipped. It was a dreaded punishment. I never thought this country would return to its roots, but it has.
A big open air prison awaits Assange…and much else besides I’d be willing to bet.
“Free, Free, Free At Last!!!”
If only it were true…
He joins the rest of the Western world’s “inmates” which number in the millions upon millions.
Welcome, Julian!!
We offer prayers for God’s protection …you (and we) will need them.
AMEN
Is it possible Assange’s life is now in more danger after being released from prison?
I don’t think so.
I think Assange will be an asset for the asses..
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Without a doubt.
If he, or anyone else, began revealing the truth with irrefutable evidence, they would be vaporized.
If it can happen to a complete sleezeball like Epstein in prison under supposedly heavy watch, it can happen to anybody, anywhere.
This is the perspective that led me to hope (can’t do anything else) that any increase in SS “protection” for PDJT would be a good thing, rather than a very very bad thing.
That is what I think. Sure the “snakes piggy back riding on his back” told him, just plead guilty to this little thing and you will go freeeeeeeeee ! . I can’t thing of a better place for the “snakes” to get rid of him than on a far away Island 2 thousand miles from nowhere.
The first time I read Julian was going to be “freed,” I immediately thought, “Yup, the Deep State silenced that one!”
Will Assange finally tell us who he thinks murdered Seth Rich in Washington DC and why?
It’s not think, it’s know.
No.
“But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.” — Amos 5:24
This would be appropriate on every post … every day. We American patriots have been hungering and thirsting for righteousness for a long time.
🙏🏻
AMEN!
No, being shown pictures of the dead Epstein discourages such disclosures.
He was Wikeaks source
Suspicious Cat is paying attention.
And Hillary will never be President.
And less than a month after President Trump suggested he would pardon Assange when asked about it.
Good point ! That’s the reason for the DOJ deal (?). DOJ knew that if Trump pardoned him, then Assange would be free to speak. Now, per the deal, he is silenced.
Question: why were the Australians so eager for a pardon? What was their self-interested motivation?
Too many unanswered questions about this release.
Three words:
control the narrative
DOJ wants to get out in front of this, and get it out of the headlines, and thus the public eye, well before the election.
Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. Interesting. They wanted to be the ones to write the release terms.
Well said, the crazed left and deep state cannot have Assange pardoned and free in their war against TRUTH.
🎯
Saw elsewhere & have to agree…
Nat Sec (National Security) is just code for “our money laudering operation”.
🤦🏻♀️ *laundering!
I have this weird sense that were about to re-live the experiences of the 60’s whereby a lot of “dignitaries, foreign and domestic” are about to die very unusual deaths and some obvious assassinations? And we keep thinking, “It can’t get any worse”! All this will soon be over.
Pence’s reaction does show that deep state neo-cons do not like the plea deal, obviously nothing favoring their interests will come from this. But I still can’t connect the dots that Assange when he is free will go all-in to join the current leftist paradigm which Sundance has accurately identified as a significant change from when Assange went into asylum.
One thing that is never mentioned is that Assange was on the DS S List well before the spring and summer of 2016, because of the Stratfor database leaks, which showed all sorts of DS skulduggery.
You can still go on WL and read the Stratfor docs.
I believe it was also Stratfor that arranged the delivery of the $65,000 of Chicago “hotdogs” for the Obama inaugural festivities.
So maybe he’s on the left, but maybe he is also a human who objects to child trafficking.
…five year sentence could mean silence is GOLDEN for the criminal left who do not want their crimes revealed (golden handcuffs) while President Trump would be back in office.
A further thought to keep things in perspective:
How many of those “hotdogs” never made the return trip to Chicago, but ended up as “expendables” in John Podesta’s torture chamber a/k/a basement movie viewing room?
This isn’t about just another 4 year election.
Julian Assange was targeted in a CIA fake rape allegation trap, was in HRC’s drone sights, was in Pompeo’s drone sights, and holds the key to the revelation of SR’s murder, and he didn’t break for nearly a decade. If he has a kill switch, it’s still operational, in or out of Belmarsh.
from the yahoo article:
“… WikiLeaks claimed it had published only a fraction of the Vault 7 documents in its possession. So, what if U.S. intelligence found a tranche of those unpublished materials online? At the White House, officials began planning for that scenario. Could the United States launch a cyberattack on a server being used by WikiLeaks to house these documents?
…
However, U.S. spies never located a copy of the unpublished Vault 7 materials online, so the discussion was ultimately moot, according to a former national security official….”
^^^ Makes me think so, Alex….
“… it’s still operational, in or out of Belmarsh.”
“… maybe he is also a human who objects to child trafficking.”
AND war crimes/murder/Treason… etc.
Also, I’m thinking he has Common Grace … Armor of God annointed… Transparency, Truth, Sunlight-bringer objectives give him the kind of SuperNatural stamina-to-withstand oppression we see in our POTUS, imo.
I hope and pray
I have been reading them as well and I suspect they are every bit as unrestrained as the CIA and FBI.
https://wikileaks.org/The-Global-Intelligence-Files.html
Becoming a shill for the Globalist/Left might have been part of the terms of release.
Might being the operative word.
“Pence’s reaction does show that deep state neo-cons do not like the plea deal, obviously nothing favoring their interests will come from this.”
The fact that Assange will forever remain silent about numerous things, or starts parroting an IC narrative, favors their interests.
I seem to recall Assange being a leftist and holding fairly anti-American views before his imprisonment. I agree in that I wouldn’t take his release for anything more than it is, which is probably another scheme in the works they cooked up with him in exchange for his release.
80 percent overlap, but much more optimistic:
https://rumble.com/v53j5c2-steve-miller-band-abracadabra.html
June.
It has begun.
I do expect JA to have a press conference soon.
Fingers crossed it will be one for the ages
He will be thoroughly convinced not to continue his prior journalism. Pictures of a comatose Epstein reinforce the message.
Good Golly Miss Molly… yes fingers crossed.
I PRAY, in Jesus’ Name, that Julian Assange will only choose to be quiet and will not be used as more cannon fodder for the left. He has been through enough torture.
I also ask the Lord to punish Hillary “Can’t we just drone ’em” Clinton fully and completely.
If I recall correctly, Fusion GPS was involved in the smear of Julian Assange… setting up the fake sexual assault charges in Sweden that kicked off his descent into imprisonment (pre-dates President Trump by quite a few years) – a Brennan op, I suspect. Clinton was one of the first to wonder about assassinating him (per her emails).
Also, the FBI had an informant working with Assange…. which is how they got the “smoking gun” to charge him under the Espionage Act.
The Vault 7 leak is what fired up Pompeo (at least, that is the visible reason).
Let’s not forget Seth Rich!
Somebody needs to do a movie/write a book!
It would not surprise me to see Assange creating videos where he demands the arrest of horrible Donald Trump, while pitching the opportunity to attend lavish Wikileaks fundraising dinners with honorees AOC, Christopher Steele and Andrew Weissmann. Prepare your mindset accordingly.
Or he will abscond to Russia. I’ll be watching with great interest.
Like the leaders of Nazi Germany, the monsters inside the U.S. government will pay for their crimes. The gigantic scale of these crimes cannot be hidden. The best outcome is to lock them up and keep them very much alive but always wishing the suffering they have earned and richly deserve could somehow end.
That coming knock on the door late at night is the specter they cannot erase from their tortured minds. They have fooled many in the past but they cannot fool themselves.
Crimes to this extent can never be “perfect.” They know the great evil they have done and can never live in peace because of the shadow of the reckoning due them, lurking on the horizon.
Al this is so fishy. Thanks for renewing my mind. Something wicked this way comes…..
“Hey Assange, we’ll guarantee your release if you promise to keep your mouth shut about our activities and conduct a very public campaign about being extradited by the Trump administration and maybe throw in some jabs about how he’s a fascist and a dictator”
This has been in the works for quite awhile. You don’t go from that iconic picture of him white hair/board, pale, between several big dudes being take away to current pictures, in a weekend. He has had good food, probably exercise, outside time, good hair, etc. He just looks like an older version of those early pictures.
I think the uniparty wants him silenced in case MAGA is able to overcome an epic level of election and voter fraud.
On hearing the news my first thought was, “I have a bad feeling about this.”
Let’s hope his credibility still matters to him…
Michael Cohen made the same statement multiple times, and yet Michael Cohen’s testimony was used to fabricate a reality in which Trump is a convicted felon.
When it comes to manipulating public opinion, we no longer live in a world in which what was said yesterday carries any relevance to today.
Even if Assange himself remains quiet and fades away, the Wikileaks organization can be retooled to serve new purposes.
Exactly where I am on this, the one thing that matters over all else.
I see what they did here…The Junta finally broke Assange and now own his soul.
The Biden Regime’s DOJ had to address this and set the terms before a probable Trump DOJ takes the helm and possibly damages leftist assets, RINOs and control agents using Assange.
If / when Trump comes into office again, we may see flight, flipping and suicides from many traitors.
Hopefully
Could releasing Assange now be an insurance policy for Biden (Obama’s 4th term) against being forcibly replaced by Clinton?
Tucker Carlson: Pompeo plotted to assassinate Assange.
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1805608549277417653
Obviously, with Mike Pence’s blessings.
Hillary wanted a drone strike on him!
I’m glad he’s out, finally, and they didn’t totally break him. But disappointed that he had to plead to anything, he didn’t do anything wrong.
He’s missed many years of being with his family, because of the vengeance of the communist US government.
It seems to me that there is a possibility that Australian IC might produce some kind of accident for Julian. Five Eyes corrupt partner.
Well now, are any of the Five Eyes partners not corrupt?
NO
I’m assuming Assange is going to Australia so he can be controlled. Any release of files he has will result in immediate consequences.
Hmmm…
First another student loan bailout, now making a plea deal for Assange to be let off with time served.
Someone in the Biden camp ain’t ready to throw in the towel for Ol’ Joe.
Our USA Department of Injustce and CIA run an efficient Gulag system of prisons and even the City of London is subservient to US. We are truly the exceptional nation.
I’m not sure about the City of London.
I cannot help but notice that Julian Assange appears to be quite healthy and fit. Far more so than one would expect after serving in “the harshest maximum security prison in the UK”.
I am a very suspicious cat. What did the deep state spooks use to frighten him into silence? There is no depth to which the spooks will not stoop to continue their reign of evil.
My ONLY comfort remains to be the knowledge that they will ALL wind up deep in the Ninth Circle of Hell, burning for all eternity while we bask in the Glory of God.
I assume they threaten to kill him and his family if he doesn’t keep his mouth shut. He should defect to the Russian Federation like Edward Snowden and Tara Reade did. It’s the only place he will be safe.
meaning Assange will now claim that, ‘in fact’, trump or his people conspired with russian hackers etc…
thatll be the Dems October Surprise and thats why they are so sanguine/complacent about their chances….
I didn’t see your reply – before posting that this is the October surprise. 100% it is – and the left who have been attacking Assange non-stop for 8 years or more will now say everything he says is credible.
Except he has no proof. JA never just said things. He always had proof.
proof?
why, we cant give you the proof–it would hurt sources and methods—national security considerations or some such nonsense.
This simply means he becomes an easier target for elimination.
Mike Judas Pence has no reason to panic. My guess is if and his children want to live LONG happy lives, he will never never never disclose what Seth Rich knew.
In fact, Assange probably keeps a pic of Seth Rich, signed by you-know-who, over his bed.
Wonder what Julian has on pence?
To rectify all our intentions how far back would we go. When one researches the truth we see all the wars started on some BS. Pretense. Then we come to the Covid era when Covid and Trumps impeachment come on the same day? Coinkedink. I think not. Go back to WW 1 and see all the deceit and who is the original LIAR. Satan who is Truth Jesus. Who controls this world currently? Jesus will return in the meantime tell all the way to Heaven as this time is short but our descision here last for ETERNITY. All these will burn forever in the lake of FIRE.
I’m quite sure JA’s lips will be tighter than Sgt Shultz’, he doesn’t want to be on John Podesta’s wetwerx list