Re: The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump
Posted: Sat September 25, 2021 3:13 am
Has Xzibit signed off?
Has Xzibit signed off?
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.”
White House officials briefed Trump and warned him that the matter could provoke an international incident — or worse. “We told him, this is going to get ugly,” said the former official.
As the debate over WikiLeaks intensified, some in the White House worried that the campaign against the organization would end up “weakening America,” as one Trump national security official put it, by lowering barriers that prevent the government from targeting mainstream journalists and news organizations, said former officials.
Reporters believe themselves some special protected class. There's no reason for that to be so.tragabigzanda wrote:Yeah it’s wicked weird how people who built their entire lives on the first amendment are interested in reporting stories that challenge the first amendment
They are empowered to promote their self interest in the public sphere more than most.tragabigzanda wrote:Riiiight... But do you think it's somehow misguided for journalists to have perceived an existential 1A threat from the Trump White House, and to report on a story that illustrates that threat?simple schoolboy wrote:Reporters believe themselves some special protected class. There's no reason for that to be so.tragabigzanda wrote:Yeah it’s wicked weird how people who built their entire lives on the first amendment are interested in reporting stories that challenge the first amendment
Assange shouldn't be murdered because he's a noncombatant and he hasn't had his day in court.
Him being a jorno is line item 1000 of 1000 reasons not to murder him.
Did they never plan to kidnap or kill him before? Is that what is unprecedented? What exactly was unprecedented? They don't say, and probably for a reason.Yahoo News wrote:The conversations were part of an unprecedented CIA campaign directed against WikiLeaks
Only if Trump were the one to order his murder.BurtReynolds wrote:He's considered a journalist now?
Have you located any categorical denial that the Obama admin (probably had more reason to do so) ever made plans to kill or capture Assange?McParadigm wrote:lmao
McParadigm wrote:Inside the CIA's secret war plans against WikiLeaks
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.”
White House officials briefed Trump and warned him that the matter could provoke an international incident — or worse. “We told him, this is going to get ugly,” said the former official.
As the debate over WikiLeaks intensified, some in the White House worried that the campaign against the organization would end up “weakening America,” as one Trump national security official put it, by lowering barriers that prevent the government from targeting mainstream journalists and news organizations, said former officials.