La #CIA a envisagé l’assassinat de Julian #Assange en 2017
▻https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/enquete-la-cia-envisage-lassassinat-de-julian-assange-en-2017
Selon une enquête publiée dimanche 26 septembre par Yahoo News, ces discussions remontent à 2017, alors que l’activiste australien entamait sa cinquième année de réclusion dans l’ambassade d’Équateur à Londres. “Le directeur de la CIA de l’époque, Mike Pompeo, et de hauts responsables de l’agence étaient furieux de la publication par WikiLeaks de Vault 7, un ensemble de logiciels de piratage de la CIA, une brèche dont l’agence juge qu’elle constitue la plus grande perte de données de son histoire”, relate le quotidien britannique
Deathly #Silence: Journalists Who Mocked Assange Have Nothing to Say About CIA Plans to Kill Him - FAIR
▻https://fair.org/home/deathly-silence-journalists-who-mocked-assange-have-nothing-to-say-about-cia-p
Indeed, the Grayzone (5/14/20) was the first outlet to provide evidence of a CIA-linked proposal to “kidnap or poison Assange” in May 2020. The story, however, was almost universally ignored, suggesting that, as Joe Lauria wrote in Consortium News (10/2/21), “until something appears in the mainstream media, it didn’t happen.”
One thing the corporate media cannot be accused of with regards to Assange, however, is inconsistency. After a key witness in the Department of Justice’s case against the publisher admitted to providing the US prosecution with false testimony, a detail that should ordinarily turn a case to dust, the corporate media responded by ignoring the story almost entirely. As Alan MacLeod wrote for FAIR.org (7/2/21):
#MSM