Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA's secret war plans against WikiLeaks
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In 2017, as Julian Assange began his fifth year holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in London, the CIA plotted to kidnap the WikiLeaks founder, spurring heated debate among Trump administration officials over the legality and practicality of such an operation.

Then again, would we expect anything else?

  • twitter [any]
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    3 years ago

    There is no indication that the most extreme measures targeting Assange were ever approved, in part because of objections from White House lawyers,

    That's limited hangout speak for "we actually tried like 6 or 7 assassination attempts and they all failed embarrassingly"