This more than solid scoop comes from the very reliable Zach Dorfman, Sean D. Naylor and Michael Isikoff at Yahoo News. While Assange had been on the radar of U.S. intelligence agencies for years, these plans for an all-out war against him were sparked by WikiLeaks’ ongoing publication of extraordinarily sensitive CIA hacking tools, known collectively as “Vault...
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Lawyer: Assange Endangered by Private Intelligence Operative and U.S. Intelligence
Julian Assange is fighting extradition to the United States saying his life would be in danger. As the Spanish newspaper El País reported last year a private security firm, Undercover Global spied Assange when he lived in the Ecuador embassy in the United Kingdom, spying on him 24/7 on behalf of the CIA. Undercover Global...
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Mueller Redacted: GRU Used Wikileaks But Did Not Conspire With Trump
While Russian military intelligence operatives hacked the Democratic party and Hillary Clinton, they used the radical transparency organization Wikileaks to disseminate the stolen material, according to the report of special prosecutor Robert Mueller partially released Thursday. President Trump’s campaign actively pursued the stolen material and communicated with Wikileaks about how it could be deployed against...
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Trump Seeks Prosecution of Julian Assange, Pro-Trump Publisher
In December 2010, real estate mogul Donald Trump said Wikileaks, online publisher of leaked documents, was “disgraceful” and suggested the death penalty might be appropriate for its massive disclosure of U.S. government secrets. In the summer of 2016, when Wikileaks began to release hacked Democratic party emails, candidate Trump said “I love Wikileaks.” On Thursday,...
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Chelsea Manning Goes Mum, May Face Contempt Charges
Chelsea Manning, the former soldier who leaked the the vast trove of material known as the Wikleaks cables, says she refused to talk this week to a grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia. Manning confirmed that the questioning concerned her actions in 2010.. The grand jury investigation is believed to be related to the investigation of...
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