{"id":2985,"date":"2021-09-27T20:45:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T18:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/27\/cia-officials-under-trump-discussed-assassinating-julian-assange-report\/"},"modified":"2021-09-27T20:45:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T18:45:30","slug":"cia-officials-under-trump-discussed-assassinating-julian-assange-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/27\/cia-officials-under-trump-discussed-assassinating-julian-assange-report\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA officials under Trump discussed assassinating Julian Assange: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Pompeo and officials requested \u2018options\u2019 for killing Assange following Wikileaks\u2019 publication of CIA hacking tools, report says<\/p>\n

Senior CIA officials during the Trump administration discussed abducting and even assassinating Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, according to a US report citing former officials.<\/p>\n

The discussions on kidnapping or killing Assange took place in 2017, Yahoo News reported<\/a>, when the fugitive Australian activist was entering his fifth year sheltering in the Ecuadorian embassy. The then CIA director, Mike Pompeo, and his top officials were furious about Wikileaks\u2019 publication of \u201cVault 7\u201d, a set of CIA hacking tools, a breach which the agency deemed to be the biggest data loss in its history.<\/p>\n

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\nMike Pompeo and officials requested \u2018options\u2019 for killing Assange following Wikileaks\u2019 publication of CIA hacking tools, report says
\nSenior CIA officials during the Trump administration discussed abducting and even assassinating Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, according to a US report citing former officials.
\nThe discussions on kidnapping or killing Assange took place in 2017, Yahoo News reported, when the fugitive Australian activist was entering his fifth year sheltering in the Ecuadorian embassy. The then CIA director, Mike Pompeo, and his top officials were furious about Wikileaks\u2019 publication of \u201cVault 7\u201d, a set of CIA hacking tools, a breach which the agency deemed to be the biggest data loss in its history. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mike Pompeo and officials requested \u2018options\u2019 for killing Assange following Wikileaks\u2019 publication of CIA hacking tools, report says Senior CIA officials during the Trump administration discussed abducting and even assassinating Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, according to a US report citing former officials. The discussions on kidnapping or killing Assange took place in 2017, Yahoo News …<\/p>\n

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