In 2017, as Julian Assange began his fifth year holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in London, the CIA plotted to kidnap the WikiLeaks founder, spurring heated debate among Trump administration officials over the legality and practicality of such an operation.
  • @MarcellusDrum@lemmy.ml
    4•3 years ago

    I’m actually really sad that Assange isn’t getting the attention he deserves. The world’s attention span is just too short for this stuff.

  • @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
    3•3 years ago

    In response, the CIA and the White House began preparing for a number of scenarios to foil Assange’s Russian departure plans, according to three former officials. Those included potential gun battles with Kremlin operatives on the streets of London, crashing a car into a Russian diplomatic vehicle transporting Assange and then grabbing him, and shooting out the tires of a Russian plane carrying Assange before it could take off for Moscow. (U.S. officials asked their British counterparts to do the shooting if gunfire was required, and the British agreed, according to a former senior administration official.)

    What the actual hell? The only thing that blows my brains out more is the fact the article somehow got worse after this too