{"id":38142,"date":"2021-10-01T10:14:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T18:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=38142"},"modified":"2021-10-01T10:14:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T18:14:51","slug":"inside-the-cia-plot-to-kidnap-kill-julian-assange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/01\/inside-the-cia-plot-to-kidnap-kill-julian-assange\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the CIA Plot To Kidnap, Kill Julian&nbsp;Assange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/\">The Grayzone<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News discusses his <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/kidnapping-assassination-and-a-london-shoot-out-inside-the-ci-as-secret-war-plans-against-wiki-leaks-090057786.html\">team&#8217;s reporting on the CIA plot to surveil, kidnap, and even kill<\/a> Assange &#8212; all overseen by Michael Pompeo. In response, Pompeo has <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/pompeo-sources-for-yahoo-news-wiki-leaks-report-should-all-be-prosecuted-234907037.html\">called for the prosecution<\/a> of all the sources involved.<\/p>\n<p>The story builds on previous disclosures including a <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/2020\/05\/14\/american-sheldon-adelsons-us-spy-julian-assange\/\">May 2020 expos\u00e9 by The Grayzone&#8217;s Max Blumenthal<\/a>, which revealed that the CIA was working with Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson and the Spanish security firm UC Global to target and surveil Assange in London&#8217;s Ecuadorian embassy.<\/p>\n<p>Isikoff and Aaron Mat\u00e9 also debate Russia&#8217;s role in the Assange controversy, particularly the allegation that Russia stole Democratic Party emails in 2016 and gave them to WikiLeaks.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YYp0e_3SNeA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patreon.com\/grayzone\">Support The Grayzone at Patreon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Grayzone: Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News discusses his team&#8217;s reporting on the CIA plot to surveil, kidnap, and even kill Assange &#8212; all overseen by Michael Pompeo. In response, Pompeo has called for the prosecution of all the sources involved. The story builds on previous disclosures including a May 2020 expos\u00e9 by The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-38142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38142"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38144,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38142\/revisions\/38144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38142"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=38142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}