by Pepe Escobar (cross-posted with the Strategic Culture Foundation) by special agreement with the author)
The Made by FBI indictment of Julian Assange does look like a dead man walking. No evidence. No documents. No surefire testimony. Just a crossfire of conditionals.
But never underestimate the legalese contortionism of US government (USG) functionaries. As much as Assange may not be characterized as a journalist and publisher, the thrust of the affidavit is to accuse him of conspiring to commit espionage.
In fact the charge is not even that Assange hacked a USG computer and obtained classified information; it’s that he may have discussed it with Chelsea Manning and may have had the intention to go for a hack. Orwellian-style thought crime charges don’t get any better than that. Now the only thing missing is an AI software to detect them.
Assange legal adviser Geoffrey Robertson – who also happens to represent another stellar political prisoner, Brazil’s Lula – cut straight to the chase (at 19:22 minutes); “The justice he is facing is justice, or injustice, in America… I would hope the British judges would have enough belief in freedom of information to throw out the extradition request.”
That’s far from a done deal. Thus the inevitable consequence; Assange’s legal team is getting ready to prove, no holds barred, in a British court, that this USG indictment for conspiracy to commit computer hacking is just an hors d’oeuvre for subsequent espionage charges, in case Assange is extradited to US soil.
All about Vault 7
John Pilger, among few others, has already stressed how a plan to destroy WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was laid out as far back as 2008 – at the tail end of the Cheney regime – concocted by the Pentagon’s shady Cyber Counter-Intelligence Assessments Branch.
It was all about criminalizing WikiLeaks and personally smearing Assange, using “shock troops…enlisted in the media — those who are meant to keep the record straight and tell us the truth.”
This plan remains more than active – considering how Assange’s arrest has been covered by the bulk of US/UK mainstream media.
By 2012, already in the Obama era, WikiLeaks detailed the astonishing “scale of the US Grand Jury Investigation” of itself. The USG always denied such a grand jury existed.
“The US Government has stood up and coordinated a joint interagency criminal investigation of Wikileaks comprised of a partnership between the Department of Defense (DOD) including: CENTCOM; SOUTHCOM; the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA); Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA); Headquarters Department of the Army (HQDA); US Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) for USFI (US Forces Iraq) and 1st Armored Division (AD); US Army Computer Crimes Investigative Unit (CCIU); 2nd Army (US Army Cyber Command); Within that or in addition, three military intelligence investigations were conducted. Department of Justice (DOJ) Grand Jury and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of State (DOS) and Diplomatic Security Service (DSS). In addition, Wikileaks has been investigated by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Office of the National CounterIntelligence Executive (ONCIX), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); the House Oversight Committee; the National Security Staff Interagency Committee, and the PIAB (President’s Intelligence Advisory Board).”
But it was only in 2017, in the Trump era, that the Deep State went totally ballistic; that’s when WikiLeaks published the Vault 7 files – detailing the CIA’s vast hacking/cyber espionage repertoire.
This was the CIA as a Naked Emperor like never before – including the dodgy overseeing ops of the Center for Cyber Intelligence, an ultra-secret NSA counterpart.
WikiLeaks got Vault 7 in early 2017. At the time WikiLeaks had already published the DNC files – which the unimpeachable Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) systematically proved was a leak, not a hack.
The monolithic narrative by the Deep State faction aligned with the Clinton machine was that “the Russians” hacked the DNC servers. Assange was always adamant; that was not the work of a state actor – and he could prove it technically.
There was some movement towards a deal, brokered by one of Assange’s lawyers; WikiLeaks would not publish the most damning Vault 7 information in exchange for Assange’s safe passage to be interviewed by the US Department of Justice (DoJ).
The DoJ wanted a deal – and they did make an offer to WikiLeaks. But then FBI director James Comey killed it. The question is why.
It’s a leak, not a hack
Some theoretically sound reconstructions of Comey’s move are available. But the key fact is Comey already knew – via his close connections to the top of the DNC – that this was not a hack; it was a leak.
Ambassador Craig Murray has stressed, over and over again (see here) how the DNC/Podesta files published by WikiLeaks came from two different US sources; one from within the DNC and the other from within US intel.
There was nothing for Comey to “investigate”. Or there would have, if Comey had ordered the FBI to examine the DNC servers. So why talk to Julian Assange?
The release by WikiLeaks in April 2017 of the malware mechanisms inbuilt in “Grasshopper” and the “Marble Framework” were indeed a bombshell. This is how the CIA inserts foreign language strings in source code to disguise them as originating from Russia, from Iran, or from China. The inestimable Ray McGovern, a VIPS member, stressed how Marble Framework “destroys this story about Russian hacking.”
No wonder then CIA director Mike Pompeo accused WikiLeaks of being a “non-state hostile intelligence agency”, usually manipulated by Russia.
Joshua Schulte, the alleged leaker of Vault 7, has not faced a US court yet. There’s no question he will be offered a deal by the USG if he aggress to testify against Julian Assange.
It’s a long and winding road, to be traversed in at least two years, if Julian Assange is ever to be extradited to the US. Two things for the moment are already crystal clear. The USG is obsessed to shut down WikiLeaks once and for all. And because of that, Julian Assange will never get a fair trial in the “so-called ‘Espionage Court’” of the Eastern District of Virginia, as detailed by former CIA counterterrorism officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou.
Meanwhile, the non-stop demonization of Julian Assange will proceed unabated, faithful to guidelines established over a decade ago. Assange is even accused of being a US intel op, and WikiLeaks a splinter Deep State deep cover op.
Maybe President Trump will maneuver the hegemonic Deep State into having Assange testify against the corruption of the DNC; or maybe Trump caved in completely to “hostile intelligence agency” Pompeo and his CIA gang baying for blood. It’s all ultra-high-stakes shadow play – and the show has not even begun.
“There are none so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” (Voltaire)
Goethe also observed that there is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. I believe he had Austfailia in 2019 in mind. How he knew that we would descend to the bedlam of today, ruled by Evil, screaming, lying, imbeciles and brainwashed by a morally insane fakestream media, I do not know. Possibly the noosphere informed him of things to come, perhaps events that were always inevitable. There is a palpable air of inevitability about the process as we hurtle towards self-destruction.
Mulga Mumblebrain: your assessment of present day ‘Austfalia’ is bang on the money. The level of Groupthink here, all due to the propaganda services, aka ‘media’ is surreal. Watching lots of people now all streaming past holding The Herald Sun or The Australian. Completely oblivious its all cow manure and keeps them utterly ignorant of how the World really is. But then, that’s the point.
What amazes me about Oz is that the people who were sent there, were those marginalized by the British elite.
They tax a man to death, take his cow in payment, and when he takes back his cow, which is rightfully his, they ship him off to the equivalent of Mars.
You would think that those who rebelled against the super wealthy British elite, who started the whole infernal process with the Enclosure Acts, essentially treating people like the Americans stole Native American land, would know better. They would take the first opportunity to tell the British Royalty to go to Hell, and treat their own natives better than they were treated.
Instead, aside from creating a modicum of social democracy, far better than the USA, they internalized their oppressors, fought their wars, and continue to Kow tow to the Queen and to the US military industrial state department complex.
Apparently, except for a few like yourself and a few other Brits and USAns, the vast majority don’t give a damn, don’t know, don’t want to know…now they’re the Good Germans.
i confronted few english and scots with the same insights
and the response i got was:
“…but the royals and all the fanfare around them brings in money,
tourists come to sightsee and buy memorabilia with royal wedding motifs,
so it’s all good”
i sh!t you not.
dumber than amoebas. evolutionary dead end.
This Scot sees them as spongers and hopes to see the demise of the Anglo Empire. This Scot would like to see an independent Scotland, sovereign and free. I know what you mean though, there are a lot of deluded English and Scots but in Scotland the majority favour independence.
“This Scot would like to see an independent Scotland, sovereign and free”
Well, that ain’t gonna happen with the dumb-arse SNP, is it.
Tell me how sovereign and free, ruled from Brussels, is supposed to work.
subhuti37: Yes, this is the question/s and there have been attempts to address them by others throughout history. “They would take the first opportunity to tell the British Royalty to go to Hell, and treat their own natives better than they were treated”.
“So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.” Voltaire, 1764
“the vast majority doesn’t give a damn, don’t know, and don’t want to know…now they’re the Good Germans”
“Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing tactics, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.” — Mark Twain
Twain is a peach, is he not?
GRK
Love the Twain quote!!
Cheers
Col
37, I work in public facilities where I meet with many ordinary Austfailians every week. Most seem very decent people, and those who behave badly often have good reasons of acute and chronic stresses to blame. But, by God they are ignorant. Virtually no-one knows much about anything but that which the fakestream media beats into their skulls day in day out. And that is 99% bulldust. Then these people are dragooned to vote, in elections where the Holy Tetralogy of greed, fear, hatred and lies almost always triumph.
Karl Rove’s immortal words about how to manipulate people to useless debate with facts, are essential to remember, also.
So here they are, again :
” We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
What if the “deep state” is misdirection away from a global oligarchy?
Wikileaks itself is a known international spook operation. Assange himself dismissed 9/11 as unimportant; meanwhile his much-vaunted-by-theMSM (hint hint) Wikileaks operation helped trigger the so-called “Arab Spring”…yet another known international spook operation. Are you seeing the pattern yet? The MSM paint a picture of these guys and let us the peons run with it.
Stop drinking the Kool Aid.
Flopot,
I’d like for you to document the two charges you make related to 9/11 and the Arab Spring.
I recall Arab Spring being launched and managed via FB, not Wikileaks.
So, please, document your serious charges. Thank you.
I reckon that is too simplistic, too one-dimensional. I always thought that Wikileaks was created to be used against China, but then Assange went postal, left the reservation, and turned on his patrons. Whether he knew that they were controlling him, I know not, but I doubt it. He’d well know that the penalty for biting that paw that feeds is administered ‘…with extreme prejudice’. I don’t think, and really cannot imagine that the Manning and Snowden revelations were anything but horrors to the ruling diabolists, and thus Assange was destined to be made an example of, to discourage the others. I rather imagine that his rendition and ‘legal’ lynching will be very public and vicious displays of elite malice and power. Just because they can, and must. The Extinction Rebellion is the real danger to elite rule.
Extinction rebellion is run by the elite.
https://www.spreaker.com/user/markwindows/fake-rebellion-the-final-revolution
It’s too late to worry about who is ‘running’ any popular movement to avert Near Term Human Extinction. Something, in fact everything, must be done to reverse course.
Read the book “The report from Iron Mountain.” (1967) or read excerpts online. In it different options are discussed to replace the main method of control of the past centuries/millennia, military power. One of the proposals is to use a climate scare and beat the masses into submission that way. They expected the plan would need about 2 generations (~50yrs) to implement.
If the elite were genuinely worried about the climate(which is a distraction on itself, the main problem is pollution) they would have released clean energy solutions that were invented in the past century. But the energy structure and price is an important part of their ability to control.
Well, we have a very scary global climate today, so the scare campaign must be in progress. So effective is the scare campaign that it has scared global average temperatures into increasing by more than one degree Celsius, mostly since 1980, it has scared nearly all montane glaciers to melt with increasing speed, it has scared the Arctic summer sea ice volume to fall by c.80% in fifty years, it has scared the permafrost to melt, it has scared CO2 levels in the atmosphere to reach the highest level for hundreds of millennia, it has scared the oceans to warm so much that coral reefs are doomed to death by bleaching within the next few decades, it has scared the North American coniferous forests to die due to pine beetle infestation then burn in megafires, and it has scared 60% of all animal life on Earth to death and disappearance over the last forty years. I could go on with symptoms of this so-called ‘scare campaign’, that ought to scare the tripe out of all rational and sane human beings who value the lives of our children, all day.
Thanks to WikiLeaks we have important source documents on US diplomacy with regard to Libya and Syria, such as the many cables from the US Embassy in Tripoli which are important sources for Maximillian Forte’s Slouching Toward Sirte (2012), which I am currently reading, and the Roebuck memo from the US Embassy in Damascus in 2006 (described e.g. in Tim Anderson’s The Dirty War on Syria (2016)). These were from the period when Libya was supposedly readmitted to the fold of the West’s friendly embrace, and when it also supposedly looked at the younger Assad as a promising reformer. In both cases what is actually revealed is an underlying hostility and willingness to exploit vulnerabilities toward an eventual goal of regime change.
@ Flopot
A wake-up, a good critical assessment of “Wikileaks” by a reputable scholar of geopolitics F. William Engdahl, published in December 2010 by Voltaire Network:
“Wikileaks: a big dangerous US Government Con Job”, https://www.voltairenet.org/article167733.html
See also “Something Stinks About Wikileaks Release of “Secret”Documents”, https://www.voltairenet.org/article166711.html , and the segment from about 05:30 to 21:00+ of the interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b0H6t7EZxk .
Flopot
Methinks you are that full of the “Kool Aid” yourself that it is now above your eyeballs.
Thank you Pepe: end of the day, to state the very obvious, this is all about vindictive revenge by the Empire. It says so much about the searing, vomit inducing hypocrisy of the West that arch war criminals like Tony Blair, Dick Cheney, Obama, George Bush, John Howard, et al, are all waling round scot free, while the truth tellers languish in jail. This is how much the ‘civilised’ West respects international law. On one rather dodgy site, I’ve even seen the ridiculous claims that Wikileaks is a Mossad operation, and Assange is doing the bidding of Israel. And of course, the presstitutes in the ‘media’ have been let loose to stick the knife into Assange even more. Demonising upon demonising. One such vile rat here in Australia is Peter Greste who writes for the ‘liberal’ The Age newspaper. After Assange and Manning, who is next on the bastards list? They will keep going after anyone who shines a light on their evil deeds.
I always saw Greste as a Rattus rattus simply because he worked for the takfiri jihadist disinfo sewer al-Jazeera. Of course he toiled for the ‘nice’ English version, whereas the jihadist propaganda for the psychopathic death-squad army, Daash, came from the Arabic version, but he must have known what he was involved in. I only know that he turned on Assange, like the envious presstitute that he is, because the wretched Phillip Adams was moaning about it the other night. At least, and I must admit, to my surprise, Adams hasn’t ratted on Assange-yet. However, as I’ve said, the next step must be to accuse Assange of the New Supreme Crime, ‘antisemitism’, then ‘PhiloSemite Phil’ will have all the motivation needed to ‘sink the slipper’. Or else, he might join the ranks of the damned himself, despite a life-time of groveling obsequiousness.
However, as I now am banned from watching the ‘news’, due to rather more than normal eruptions of intemperance, one of which led to my precious Groucho mug suffering a tragic fate, I am now much better involved in a Youtube marathon. A little Furtwangler, a touch of Yudina playing Schubert, and dash of Bowie live in Florida, and visions of Scummo simply vanish into thin air. I might need to rely on you Gezzah to keep me up to date with events in the ‘real world’.
Thank you Pepe. This Good Friday, it is Julian Assange that they are nailing to a cross.
I hope and pray that he will rise again. :)
For me the filthiest aspect of this whole sordid witch-hunt is the role of the Western fakestream media presstitute harlots in defaming Assange. Their role as stooges of and hate and fear-mongers for the ruling Western elites has always been plain, but here their habitual mendacity, hypocrisy and viciousness has been joined by the crudest and most malicious envy. Assange and his organisation have done more real, honest, journalism and Truth-telling than all the barking, snarling, slavering feminazi and MI6 stooge thugs at the execrable Guardian would do in several life-times. In fact infinitely more because those propaganda droogs only deal in untruth, half-truth and groveling, sniveling, service to power. But, for all our angst and rage, Assange is dead meat, and was always a dead man walking once the Empire of Exceptional Evil decided that he must be destroyed. I rather suspect that they will do a Milosevic on him. No doubt the result of his faecal art-work.
Mulga Mumblebrain: I couldn’t have said it better myself…. Rats and Presstitutes who grovel to power and those who rule. Creatures like Greste disgust me, but why should I be surprised? That is their role in keeping the masses anaesthetised. And ignorant. And to whip up the 2 minutes of hate on behalf of the ruling classes all aimed at ‘official enemies’ of the Anglo Zionist Empire. An Orwellian world Mulga.
Thanks to Pepe for this clear coverage of the Assange saga to date.
He is due in court next on May 2nd to answer the charge of breaking his bail and for the extradition to Sweden under the European arrest warrant to be considered. He has already lost one appeal against that warrant but has a good barrister in Geoffrey Robertson, though in this highly politicised case I don’t have the faith in British judges that Robertson seems to have. We have some very independent-minded judges but I can’t see uk.gov allowing any leeway in picking the ‘right’ judge who will deliver the harsh verdict they obviously want.
I hope I’m wrong.
The two judicial Tory thugs that Assange has encountered most recently, Arbuthnot and Snow, did not bother to hide their outrageous bias and contempt, even hatred, for Assange. He has virtually no chance of a fair hearing.
In an unrigged system, a good defense attorney would have the judge’s obvious bias disallowed. To demand a new judge. In fact there are cases like Mumia Abu Jamal, where the judge’s clear bias against a defendant played a big role in the defense. However as you imply, the judicial system must be fair enough to take that into account.
Generally, highly politicized trials are stacked against the defendant, starting with what we have here, a ‘hanging judge”
I hope you are, too. it was refreshing for me to read the above comments because many of the comments I have read here in the US have been ugly. WTF was all I could think…This will be horrific if there is a bad outcome as, first of all, we’re supposed to be a Freedom of Speech country and, secondly, we DO have a criminal government. The shameful, heinous, reprehensible aggressive wars of the past 18 years, illegal by international law, are a massive blight on our country…the worst terrorist country in the world today. Even constitutionally, our Congress and House of Representatives are supposed to be the watchdogs of government oversight. Obama, once faced with the arrest of Assange, at least recognized our Freedom of Speech right, pardoned him. Today, we have an imbecilic, ignorant, greedy, pompous ass in the White House drunk on power and hypocrisy who has lied and cheated his way through life. We also have a relatively large segment of the population that is equally ignorant as our mainstream media dutifully reports what Washington requests. On the upside, there are independent news organizations, Wikileaks being one of them, that do endeavor to publish the writings of independent journalists. We now have a pretty divided country which also isn’t good. What a mess. #FreeAssange. We have also just imprisoned a truth-teller who used to work for Trump and had a moral moment when he chose to reveal the crookery of our present Liar-in-Chief…the last man in the world who should be in the White House. Vote-wise he did not receive the majority vote so our Supreme Court actually took over and voted him in on a 5-4 vote. Just like they did GW Bush..also a war criminal and brainless. To the masses that now hate the US, there are many here that join their ranks….knowing full-well our government doesn’t listen to us, either. All that said, Hillary, who did receive the majority vote (but also a war-mongerer) lost. Trump’s appointees are Zionists and warmongers. Every head of the mainstream media channels are also Zionists. Welcome to the new United States of Israel. And P.S. the “official” story of the Holocaust is also BS. The author of the book “hitler’s War”, an historical documentarian, David Irving ended up in prison and fined tens of thousands of dollars for his revelations. No one I’m aware of would publish lies for the price he had to pay for his work. Bush lied and is free. Obama’s Peace and Freedom platform was for naught, Trump has further pushed our illegal wars, and Juiian reported the truth, just like Manning, and they got imprisoned. I’m “Not Proud to be American”..haven’t stood for the Flag since 2000..like the government would give a flip…add all that to our complicity in 9/11..our pretense for getting into the wars in the Middle East..which Israel cheered. Back in our VietNam days, our protests here worked to get us out of there. Today, our protests fall on deaf ears.
The attacks on Assange come from elite vermin in the West, and from fakestream media scum, perhaps the lowest of the low, rightly somewhere about the level of paederasts and real estate agents in public esteem-an insult to those categories in my opinion. The presstitutes, such lying hypocrites and groveling stooges to power, are simply envious, Gadarene pigs who never did a day’s real journalism in their sordid careers, and Assange did more to reveal the Evil crimes of the Empire in one day than these vicious swine would dare, or be allowed, to reveal in their entire careers.
“Ambassador Craig Murray has stressed, over and over again (see here) how the DNC/Podesta files published by WikiLeaks came from two different US sources; one from within the DNC and the other from within US intel.”
The main point here bears stressing, although the “over and over again” part may only be true of this particular interview, where he does indeed stress the point more than once. Obviously, he’s been reluctant to say more publicly – or to correct the record when misconceptions about what he has claimed are frequently repeated.
Earlier this week I Tweeted the following:
“Ex UK diplomat Craig Murray claims that the DNC and Podesta files were from two different leakers, both Americans, and hints that the former were from a DNC insider and the latter from someone in intelligence or law enforcement. See his interview with Scott Horton, Dec 2016.”
Craig Murray happened to see this Tweet, and replied:
“Thank you Steven that’s the first tweet I’ve seen for years that actually understood what I said about the leaks!”
https://twitter.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1118099287513104384
The major misconception about what Craig Murray has claimed is based on the story in the Daily Mail which has him claiming to have actually received files that WikiLeaks published at a secret rendezvous with a source near the American University campus. A “thumb drive” is often mentioned in this connection. Some even suppose that this source may have been Seth Rich (though the meeting actually took place in late September, after Rich had sadly been murdered two-and-a-half months earlier).
However, the “hand-off” claim is not supported by any direct quotes from Murray in the article, and it conflicts with his public statements elsewhere, such as in the Scott Horton interview, where he clearly states that the materials were already safely in the hands of WikiLeaks at the time of his meeting with the source, and elsewhere characterized the meeting as “administrative” only. Robert Parry, who was one of the few people who noticed the Horton interview and accurately wrote about its contents, wrote in this connection: “Though Murray has declined to say exactly what the meeting in the woods was about, he may have been passing along messages about ways to protect the source from possible retaliation, maybe even an extraction plan if the source was in some legal or physical danger.” These points seem to be speculation, but at least they are consistent with what Murray has verifiably said publicly.
See: https://consortiumnews.com/2016/12/18/a-spy-coup-in-america/
I review key points about what Murray has actually claimed in a long comment under “VIPS: Mueller’s Forensics Free Findings”, Consortium News, March 13, 2019: https://consortiumnews.com/2019/03/13/vips-muellers-forensics-free-findings/
The following points reproduce what I wrote there:
1. Murray asserts that the DNC leak and the Podesta leak involved two entirely different sources.
2. Murray flatly asserts that in both cases the leaks were “by Americans” who had access to the information they leaked as part of their jobs.
3. Murray flatly asserts that Guccifer 2.0 was not the source in either case.
4. The person he met in Washington was clearly the Podesta leaker.
5. Murray says this meeting occurred after the Podesta material was already safely with WikiLeaks.
6. Murray insinuates rather plainly that the person was involved (within American intelligence or law enforcement) in monitoring John Podesta’s communications as a registered and paid lobbyist for Saudi Arabia.
7. Murray suggests that the answer to the question “was the leaker someone from intelligence/law enforcement, or was the leaker someone from the Democratic Party/DNC?” that the answer will be different in the two cases – which, given points (1) and (6), implies that the DNC leak was from a Democratic insider.
8. Murray says that Julian Assange’s statement about Seth Rich reflects concern that Rich may have been killed on orders of someone who _thought_ he was the leaker – whether correctly or incorrectly. Thus Murray does not deny that Seth Rich was the DNC leaker but also avoids confirming it. We must still assume _some_ rational basis for so thinking on the part of Rich’s possible killers is being implied by Assange – such as knowledge that Rich had been in touch with WikiLeaks.
9. Turning to other sources of information, it is clear that Murray’s meeting in Washington with the Podesta leaker will have occurred after he left the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence banquet [sic- the event was a ceremony, but evidently not a banquet] early in order to do so. (In other interviews which I haven’t kept track of, Scott Horton says that two other people he’s interviewed (Phil Giraldi and Ray McGovern?) were there at the banquet and witnessed Murray leave early.) This was on September 25, 2016.
10. In video extracted in the course of Bill Binney’s recent interview with Jason Goodman, Murray says that the purpose of the meeting was “administrative” only. He says that “even whistleblowers have administration and bureaucracy.” He says “I never in my life met Seth Rich, and he, of course, had sadly been murdered some months before the occasion on which I was there meeting someone.”
Many thanks for these valuable clarifications.
I thought previously that Murray had actually received a thumb drive.
Has Murray volunteered to be interrogated/questioned by the Mueller folks?
Do they even know who he is?
In light of their studied refusal to question Assange, I expect this is another “studied” refusal to access an obvious source. Now that Mueller has said there has been no collusion, is his investigation tasked with inviestigating anything else, such as the source of the many lies and the actual truth?
Katherine
I have certainly heard that Craig Murray is among the sources that the Mueller team conspicuously failed to interview. My memory is vague on whether Murray himself has noted this failure. But how could they not be aware of him?
As far as I know, Mueller’s investigation is over. It is suggested (e.g. by Joe DiGenova in his recent interview with Bill O’Reily) that Barr will be launching an investigation into spying on the Trump campaign, and the real origins of Russiagate.
How serious this will be I don’t know. I’ve also seen it suggested that Barr is motivated by desire to protect the “good name” of the Justice Department. But that could mean rooting out the real problems (or some of them), or covering them up. We’ll have to see.
And, in contrast, I saw the PBS News Hour yesterday, with the resident mummified feminazi banshee and two male propaganda droogs, hissing and spitting about ‘Russian’ interference, meddling etc, that the feminazi decreed was ‘sweeping’. And the more obese and superannuated of the males declared it an attack on ‘our precious democracy’, or some such clap-trap.
So, for these deranged hysterics, one troll-farm, operating with NO connection to ‘Russia’ aside from residing there and their boss’s role as caterer to the Kremlin, at some time in the past (which made him, in the moronic jargon of the presstitute’s ‘Putin’s chef’) which posted mostly pictures of puppies and the like, many of which appeared AFTER the election, and which total output amounted to very much less than 1% of total Internet election related traffic, was ‘sweeping’, ‘huge’ etc, ‘interference’ in the Holy US election farce. Not only is that pitiful in comparison to the ‘meddling’ of Israel, or Sordid Barbaria or others, but it also almost utterly disappears and one requires an electron microscope to discern it, in comparison to US interference, subversion and sabotage of politics in countries around the world. But for these propaganda swine, that malevolent and wholly malignant meddling either does not exist in their brainwashed pig brains. or it is simply the Exceptionalists’ right to do so, as the planet’s Supreme Beings.
Ultimately, America is soiling its supersized panties about Wikileaks because it not only exposed the American Empire’s serial war crimes and atrocities around the world (see the “Collateral Murder” video).
But, as a result, this exposure challenges America’s hegemonic domination over the hearts and mind of the world–as the self-styled Leader of the Free World, Moral Arbiter of the “Rules-Based International Order,” and Land of the Free itself is shown to be reveling in the blood of countless victims that it has slaughtered.
If there is one thing that the self-proclaimed Exceptional Nation and Indispensable People cannot stand, it is to have their self-righteous delusions about America as a Force for Good™ imploded like the World Trade Center 7 building on Sept. 11th.
This is why you see American regime leaders worked up into a frenzied lather about Julian Assange and Wikileaks, and why the freedom-loving (sic) American people shamefully and hypocritically supporting the US persecution of Assange by a factor of 3 to 1.
By 3-to-1, Americans Want Assange Prosecuted
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/04/17/by-3-to-1-americans-want-assange-prosecuted/
In other words, the American Evil Empire Has No Clothes.
Julian Assange Is Guilty Only of Revealing the Evil Soul of US Imperialism
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/04/14/julian-assange-guilty-only-revealing-evil-soul-us-imperialism.html
“By 3-to-1, Americans Want Assange Prosecuted”
No one asked me . . .
Katherine
Agent or no agent, there are a few very odd things about Assange
Agent Assange
https://ronaldthomaswest.com/2017/01/08/agent-assange/
The blog post linked seems to assume Assange/Wikileaks would only release cables etc. that helped progressives.
My assumption is that Assange/Wikileaks is agnostic.
In fact, this is exactly why he is being hounded by the USA. Because he/Wikileaks exposed the truth, wherever it
led. The USA would be happy if Wiki only exposed shenanigans that hurt their enemies. It may well be that Assange collected info in Egypt. But I don’t think this matters.
What matters is that information was released that major political and other actors preferred to keep secret.
Katherine
Something I’ve noted during this repetition of informatics spying is how history asserts itself ‘frst as drama, secondly as tragedy, thirdly as tragicomedy — and in the final end as hillary-comedy’: Those astute enough to view the unfoldings objectively and cool are those who’ve followed the out-meandering of data tecknology misuse from the very beginning of primitive programming, which is to say those in the 55-80 year cohort. Younger youngsters seem to accept lying spying in the stride without knowing that it indeed doth reflect on themselves.
Your’e wrong, I don’t know about young kids but most young educated adults are pretty knowledgeable about the dangers. It’s the MSM that distorts and most young adults don’t follow MSM.
Cable cutting is exponentially increasing and soon they will die like dinosaurs leaving just digital footprints.
If the Brits do sacrifice Assange to the blood lust of their global hegemonic master. And that , baring almost a miracle, is what is going to happen. But the real question is what happens to Wikileaks, the organization itself. They have had 7 years to plan for this disaster.And certainly ever since the traitor US stooge Moreno gained power in Ecuador,the handwriting has been on the wall. So while I’m sure they hoped to avoid this,they knew it was almost certain to happen. So what is their plan to continue with Wikileaks. I don’t see that the martyrdom of Assange “has” to destroy Wikileaks.But instead should fuel their anger to continue.And to deliver as many “body blows” to the US Deepstate as they can.
I think the genius of Wikileaks is the way it is set up as a sort of electronic dead letter drop where anyone can post files confident that they are unlikely to be tracked and identified. This whole Assange witch-hunt is supposed to act as a deterrent to others thinking about doing the same, that’s why a simple bail breech, which would normally get a slap on the wrist or, at most, a few weeks prison time, has been turned into such a scripted-for-the-camera circus.
Assange dared to defy the ‘great and good’ and that is what cannot be tolerated, at any cost, as it undermines their power. Just as Assange intended.
The connections you make are syllogisms, and as we all know, at least half of all syllogisms possible to construct are false.
You prove nothing. As did Flopot.
The US government, usually through DARPA, but through its overlording all Tech Labs, Institutes and University research loci, ever since Reagan, is inside most every development in the US tech sector.
CIA got involved, too.
That’s the state of things for 35-40 years at least. They filter for what they want, they bankroll for what they need.
It is no surprise that Tor, Bitcoin, etc have their fingerprints all over them.
The US Government is a Tyranny. Its Deep State is deep and wide. One area they have total control over is Tech. The other necessary sector is Financial (investments). And the final sector is Congress. Since they grew out of the Executive and control whatever agency, bureau or council touching or administered by the Presidential powers, they have control over all of the US government and its primary economic sectors. Total Fascism. Thus, a Tyranny because the enemy they fear most of all is the People.
Some of that Deep State has been surfaced by the cabal against MAGA (who they feared the most) and Trump who looked for a short while as uncontrollable. They now have full management control of Trump and they are back to old games of regime change, several small wars, hybrid containment wars against Russia and China, and the use of terrorists (ISISI, AQ and separatists) in various regions.
No one should be surprised when pieces of evidence surface that the US government was there at the birth of something.
How about the CIA control of Snowden’s horde of information, buying off Greenwald, controlling Pierre Omidyar, and then disappearing the bulk of what Snowden brought out of the NSA? This we know is what happened.
Would we have all that information if Snowden brought it to WikiLeaks and Assange? Clearly, by evidence of Vault 7 leak, the answer is Yes. Assange and WikiLeaks don’t get bought off. Assange is in deep shit because he hasn’t compromised.
I should have addressed this to Anonymous, but they are multitudinous so it’s there for who argue weakly against Assange and WikiLeaks. Reading some of it is like parsing through a troll farm.
Some food for thought from Caitlin Johnstone
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-20/caitlin-johnstone-debunks-all-assange-smears
Also on her home site:
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/04/20/debunking-all-the-assange-smears/
And it is back on Medium as well.
“DARPA is inside most every development in the US tech sector”…
As are the Israelis…no matter how seemingly insignificant the new breakthrough or improvement, they are there, or will soon show up for a look see or samples/literature to bring home.
The Israelis pioneer some tech developments. Check out the facts. Technion has been a very productive institute. The Israelis also got some of the cream of the USSR tech sector when one million Jews went there from Russia and Ukraine in the 90s.
They are active with Chinese tech sector, also.
And they are tied into French tech, additionally.
These are long-standing, symbiotic relationships going back to the early 50s in some cases.
I agree with the authors assessment.
If the “Russia did it” lie becomes solidified, trump is just another failure, at best.
I also have *some* hope that events may pave the way for a better, more honest world despite these dispicable nasties most fevered efforts.
“Maybe President Trump will maneuver the hegemonic Deep State into having Assange testify against the corruption of the DNC; or maybe Trump caved in completely to “hostile intelligence agency” Pompeo and his CIA gang baying for blood. It’s all ultra-high-stakes shadow play – and the show has not even begun.”
Yeah, keep the desperate clinging to false hopes. The “shadow play” and “the show” is all about keeping the sucker’d hooked on their psywar induced delusions.
i concur. william binney was organised by VIP’s to give his undoubtedly
expertise in explaining that the hack of DNC could never have happened.
its the speed of the ”download” that was impossible over the internet,
meaning it could ony have been an inside job from the east coast area.
they even tried sending over the internet to various countries in europe
with extremely slower results than those recorded for the ”hack”.
see ray mcgovern you tube talks about it there are several, as well as binney’s
interviews.
guess who he debriefed about this? pompeo.
the interviewer was taken aback at binney’s matter of fact
acceptance that he was ignored.
now we have ”hostile entity probably connected to russia” .
one snippet i’ve picked up is 800 files released by wiki about
russian corruption.
Apart from Trump speaking for himself…..I do not see anyone else actually speaking up for him…..so is it just him playing leader…or there is no one else legally or in his employ that has got their**** together over everything that is now out there to drain the swamp…is it too big to drain or can it swallow all the Steeles and UK.Ukraine connections … Comeys Hillarys CIA FBI et al etc etc …..?
@ JJ
Oh, our “poor” Trump … such an “innocent victim” … sob, sob… ;-(
https://journal-neo.org/2016/11/25/the-dangerous-deception-called-the-trump-presidency/
This is quite interesting.
When “Wiki Leaks” – Assange Syria Papers
06.07.2012
by Christof Lehmann
Full article here:
http://www.pravdareport.com/world/121582-wikileaks_assange/
Here are what I see as the most relevant partts:
… The US-American Journalist and Historian Webster G. Tarpley, who among other is known for […] his investigative work for the Italian government into the kidnapping and murder of former Italian P.M. Aldo Moro, and for discovering that it was an intelligence infiltrated command of the Brigade Rosse that was responsible for the Moro murder, has also investigated Assange.
Webster G. Tarpley has been one of the first to pay attention to the fact that something smells bad when Wiki Leaks [sic]. In fact, Tarpley has built a strong case, documenting that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is the product of CI’s brand of Cult Mind Control or Behavior Modification.
Tarpley is asking a series of very relevant questions. Who is financing Julian Assange’s nomadic life ? Why is he given access to the front pages of some of the most prestigious main stream newspapers while high profile journalists struggle to get there? It would be good to add, the most prestigious, corporate or state sponsored newspapers. How does Assange manage to stay free without being apprehended ? Why has no court yet sentenced him for hacking and given him a ten years sentence ? It happens with so many other hackers, but not Assange, the super hero hacker ?
[…]
If that is not enough to become highly suspicious about Julian Assange, and if one still does not think that it smells badly when “Wiki Leaks”, here is the clincher:
His parents were running a touring theater company and Assange´s childhood was chaotic. His mother, Christine Assange, was divorced from his father and remarried in 1979 with a member of the New Age Cult called “Sanitniketan Park Association” also known as “The Great White brotherhood of Light”. The leader of the cult, Anne Hamilton-Byrne was a self-proclaimed Yoga teacher, who taught spiritual Yoga. She was seemingly predominantly attracting mentally unstable disciples. About 25 % of the group were nurses and physicians who ran a private hospital in Kew, Australia. Because of the groups New Age Beliefs, many of their mentally unstable patients were treated with LSD, Electric Chock Therapy and Lobotomy.(3)
The cult leader, Anne Hamilton-Byrne was involved in the kidnapping of young children, who with the help of the cult´s members were provided false identities. Anne Hamilton-Byrne had ambitions to create a “Master Race”, and be it by fraud, by coloring the children’s hair blond. The children were kept at a remote location called Kia Lama, and were made to believe that Ann Hamilton-Byrne was their mother, and made subject to mind control experiments. (ibid.)
Although Assange may only have spent three or four years of his early childhood under those conditions, everybody who has once studied the 17.000 pages of declassified documents pertaining the CIA´s MK Ultra Behavioral Modification Experiments, or read the protocol of the Senate Hearings about the CIA program knows, that Assanges background must raise serious alarm bells as to whom he is actually working for, and who his handlers and controllers are. (5)
It is overwhelmingly likely that the publication of the Syria Papers is – The latest of CIA´s Controlled Hang Out Operations. It is also high time that independent media as well as an informed public begin to understand that it smells bad when “Wiki Leaks”. A healthy public reaction to the Syria papers would be to say. “Wiki, you are an adult now, and you can´t go on leaking over there in your corner. We know that you have been badly abused in your childhood, but it´s time to grow up. We won´t tolerate that you are “leaking over there in your corner because it stinks to high heaven. Go to the toilet, that is where your leaks belong”. Another healthy public response would be to say: ” Don´t try to tell hard working investigative journalists that your CIA-Puppet work has anything to do with journalism. Journalists go after the criminals rather than putting themselves into the lime light to detract attention from the criminals.
So,what is Wiki´s Stench Covering up this time ? After distracting attention from the murder of twelve Iraqis, among them two Reuters employees and two children, by diverting all attention towards little abused Blondie Julian and private Manning who is rotting in jail, and numerous other controlled hang-out-operations that question should be the one that dominates the public and political discourse.
The fact that NATO, the GCC and their best buddies from Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood are doing their utmost to alleviate the consequences of their diplomatic defeat by Russia and China ? The fact that Hilary Clinton and the Wall Street Puppet Obama will do everything they can to continue the destabilization of Syria. Now that Clinton and Obama have received a clear and unequivocal message from Russia, China and Iran, that a military adventure on Syria is equivalent to a declaration of war, it is most likely that the illegal, unconventional war on Syria, the war of terror and death squads will be intensified ? The fact that the so called Free Syrian Army is being supplied with tanks and heavy weapons ? The fact that Syria already has a unity government, that members of opposition parties to the Arab Socialist Baath Party have numerous of the key Ministries ?
A Hail to Julian Assange, who dares to discuss publicly what journalism should be and how he tries to keep journalism ethical.
Why not write something about the Swiss hand grandees that are being used by insurgents ? (6)
Why not write about Walid Jumblatt and the fact that the Chairman of Lebanon´s Progressive Socialist Party is pushing Israeli Weapons to the insurgents ? Weapons delivered by Israels Raphael Industries. (7)
Why not drawing attention to the hundreds of confessions by insurgents who admit that they were murdering civilians to make video´s for Al-Jazeera to blame the terrible Assad Regime ? The hundreds of confessions that document that the war in Syria is a foreign subversion from beginning to end ? (8)
[…]
This comment seems to drift away from Assange.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating
Whatever Assange’s personal foibles *may* be, the bottom line is that Assange/Wikileaks leaked documents that made a lot of people look terrible. so it seems highly unlikely that Assange/Wikileaks are working *for* are are controlled *by* those same people.
Katherine
“This is quite interesting.”
No it’s not. But this actually is interesting:
Debunking All The Assange Smears
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/04/20/debunking-all-the-assange-smears/
Wikileaks worked to defeat Hillary in 2016. Trump knows Wikileaks is an asset to winning in 2020. I expect Assange will be deposed in upcoming indictments against DS actors regardless Pompeo’s staged aggressiveness to look tough.
The thing is that Wikileaks will still publish their files even if Assange is extradited here and given a kabuki trial. Assange has been cut off from the Internet for a year and yet Wikileaks released the files on Moreno’s corruption. And rumors are that they have a deadman’s switch if something happens to Assange. The Vault 7 files were damning enough for the CIA. Imagine if Wikileaks has the real story on JFK or even worse 9/11? Releasing the truth about either of those events would rile the country up bigly as Trump says.
It’s curious how the country yawned after the information that Comey killed the deal that would have answered where the DNC emails came from, but then it also yawned when the 29 pages of the 9/11 report was released that showed how much support the Saudi terrorists got from their government. I find it interesting that people will buy propaganda every time, but then they refuse to believe what is the real truth. This says quite a bit about Americans don’t you think?
The ‘real story’ of 9/11? Do you mean that MOSSAD, various US sayanim and Sabbat Goyim led by Cheney and Rumsfeld did it. That real story?
Assange arrest shows Moreno is ‘CIA asset,’ turning Ecuador into ‘vassal’ – former FM
https://www.rt.com/news/457170-patino-ecuador-moreno-vassal-cia/
“This is an insult to the dignity of our country, it is lawlessness – to allow the British police to enter our embassy and pull out the person we gave asylum to. And according to our constitution and international agreements it is forbidden to extradite him, this is called the principle of non-refoulement,” Patino told RT Spanish in an exclusive interview.
“All that Moreno does is an attempt to completely destroy what we have built. Undoubtedly, it was planned and it was planned with the CIA involvement. He is not smart enough to come up with something like this, so it is staged by the US Embassy,” Patino claimed, adding that a CIA representative frequents presidential and government meetings, telling Ecuadorian leadership what to do.
“I am accused of giving a speech during a meeting of our political organization,” the former minister said. “I’ve called on our supporters to accompany the people, take to the streets, to state institutions and condemn the disastrous economic and social policy of the government of Lenin Moreno in Ecuador. Therefore, because of the dissent, because I gave a speech at a meeting, they wanted to arrest me.”
Hey, if you aren’t willing to take it up the rear for uncle bibi and his yapping dog trump, anything goes in the zionazified west to shut you up.
Pasting this into the twitter search box brings educational results.
assange OR wikileaks from:cuttlefish_btc
I find it amazing the contortions the likes of Caitlin Johnstone go through in order to dismiss the thoroughly repulsive origins and udders that brought up Assange and his organization, the constant efforts, now including all mainstream, to lionize what by all accounts is, at best, a pathetic, gross and hyyper-narcisistic mutant with delusions of grandeur
“In fact the charge is not even that Assange hacked a USG computer and obtained classified information; it’s that he may have discussed it with Chelsea Manning and may have had the intention to go for a hack.”
Now, for every reasonable person (excluding lawyers) this looks like a nothingburger, but could it be that just this is the trap?
There is only one party yearning for his catch, and that is the USA. UK? Administrative humdrum. Sweden? Forget it. Case dismissed, and I don’t believe this honeypot story. Assange banged two ladies within days, they found out, and in jealousy screwed him. The first one even tweeted that she had ‘such a wonderful night’. Doesn’t sound like rape, does it? Later she deleted her tweet, but the internet forgets little (yes Anna Ardin, google cache is a bitch).
The UK will use this nothingburger to ‘sell’ his extradiction to the USA, is my guess. Gee, what can happen with such flimsy accusations? Well, in the USA they have the Patriot Act, the NDAA and the principle of ‘indefinite detention’ (not only in the USA, btw).
The handover could be a freak show, with -I expect- a shrieking Hilarious Clinton, surpassing her famous ‘we came, we saw, he died’.
Thereafter, Assange is just a tool. They are after Wikileaks, so they will purge as much info out of him as they can. Some black site.
And then he will just disappear. Anyone heard lately of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, who were not exactly accused of a crime?
But I do hope I’m wrong.
Cheers, Rob
I’m waiting for a few ‘Truth Bombs’ to explode when British courts decide to extradite him to the US. Julian is is very smart guy, let’s see what he has up his sleeve.
If he’s as smart as I think he is, he must have some insurance (intelligence dumps about folks in power) set to explode when they try extraditing him to Guantanamo.
The Phil Greaves timeline has been showing a refreshingly sardonic and acerbic take on the Wikileaks/Assange topic, much apreciated among the cloying orgy of pieties we keep hearing almost everywhere
https://twitter.com/PhilGreaves01/with_replies
Some peeks he offers into his own past threads are quite entertaining
https://twitter.com/PhilGreaves01/status/1121056968196730880