So I just finished reading Yahoo’s reporting on the CIA’s war against Julian Assange & Wikileaks and frankly it reads like it’s out of a movie.  Ideas like shooting it out with the Russians on the streets of London to assassinating him and the bugging of the Ecuadorian embassy…  Anyway it’s too long to talk about the highlights, worth a read and this is a dangerous precedent and frankly an assault to the free press.

This Yahoo News investigation, based on conversations with more than 30 former U.S. officials — eight of whom described details of the CIA’s proposals to abduct Assange — reveals for the first time one of the most contentious intelligence debates of the Trump presidency and exposes new details about the U.S. government’s war on WikiLeaks. It was a campaign spearheaded by Pompeo that bent important legal strictures, potentially jeopardized the Justice Department’s work toward prosecuting Assange, and risked a damaging episode in the United Kingdom, the United States’ closest ally.

The CIA declined to comment. Pompeo did not respond to requests for comment.

“As an American citizen, I find it absolutely outrageous that our government would be contemplating kidnapping or assassinating somebody without any judicial process simply because he had published truthful information,” Barry Pollack, Assange’s U.S. lawyer, told Yahoo News.

Source: Yahoo News

Totally unhinged that it even got this far.