The disclosure was made by the committee chair, Representative Adam Schiff (D-California), to Yahoo News, the same outlet that exposed the agency’s lethal connivance. He said the congressional body was “seeking information about it,” having reached out “to the agencies” — an apparent reference to the CIA and Office of …
Read More »Hypocrisy at its finest: Facebook whistleblowers are feted, while Julian Assange is jailed
All whistleblowers are equal, but some are more equal than others. Or, we could more specifically say, whistleblowers whose revelations aid ruling-class agendas are put in front of Congress and handed the mic, while those whose revelations expose ruling-class agendas are persecuted and end up in maximum-security jails. This week …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Now it’s been proved it considered assassinating or kidnapping Julian Assange, how is the CIA still a thing?
These plans were reportedly made in coordination with the Trump White House as then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo and then-Deputy CIA Director Gina Haspel raged over WikiLeaks’ 2017 Vault 7 release which revealed that the CIA had lost control of an enormous digital arsenal of hacking tools. These included tools which enabled the …
Read More »British taxpayers footed £300,000 bill SO FAR for court costs in Julian Assange’s extradition saga – reports
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) spent £150,000 ($205,100) on retaining barristers for Assange’s extradition hearing in January. It spent another £22,000 ($30,000) on expert witnesses and a further £5,000 ($6,800) on transcripts, according to a report by investigative news outlet Declassified UK, which cited documents obtained through Freedom of Information …
Read More »‘It will never happen’: Snowden laughs off suggestion Julian Assange or himself would ever get Nobel Peace Prize
Snowden burst into laughter during an interview with the Russian media on Thursday, when the host asked him if Assange or he could imagine their nominations for the prestigious international award lead to either of them receiving it. “It will never happen,” he assured. “The thing is, someone like Julian …
Read More »Julian Assange is a political prisoner worn down by a rigged judicial system that will never stop seeking to destroy him
At the High Court in London this week, the United States dealt yet another blow to Julian Assange, the journalist and founder of WikiLeaks who continues to languish in a maximum-security prison. I have covered Assange’s extradition hearings from the start and attended his High Court hearing this week remotely. …
Read More »George Galloway: Do Britain and the US secretly want Julian Assange to commit suicide?
The 21st century has provided many days of shame for Britain and yesterday was just another. The High Court in London casually set aside a decision by one of its own judges – who’d heard every minute of the evidence – that Julian Assange, Britain’s most prominent political prisoner, might …
Read More »US granted permission to appeal UK court decision blocking Julian Assange’s extradition
The US government has received “limited permission” to challenge the UK decision not to send Assange to the United States to stand trial, WikiLeaks said on Wednesday. London’s High Court ruled in January that the imprisoned journalist should not be extradited, citing concerns about his mental health and wellbeing. Assange …
Read More »Julian Assange is a ‘journalist of distinction’ & has to be set free, Jeremy Corbyn tells RT outside UK’s Belmarsh Prison
A group of British members of parliament have come to the walls of Belmarsh maximum-security prison in south-east London on Tuesday to protest the lack of transparency in Assange’s case. The MPs said their requests to meet with the founder of the WikiLeaks whistleblower website, who is wanted by Washington …
Read More »Snowden declares ‘end of case against Julian Assange’ after newspaper reveals LIES by key witness in US extradition case
Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, Icelandic citizen and former Wikileaks volunteer turned FBI informant for $5,000, has admitted to Icelandic newspaper Stundin that he fabricated important parts of the accusations in the indictment. In an article published on Saturday, Stundin details several occasions of Thordarson now denying his own testimony, claiming that Assange never …
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