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Was Assange targeted for Exposing Clinton?

A Wikileaks tweet has stated that “heavily armed police” have appeared outside of the Ecuadorian embassy in London where Julian Assange has taken refuge.

Julian Assange has clearly and substantially offended the U.S. government on a number of past occasions, but no actual action against his internet connection was taken until it began exposing Hillary Clinton’s wrongdoings, including providing evidence that Clinton was instrumental in the transfer of uranium (the basic ingredient for nuclear weapons) to the Russians, and providing information about her criminally negligent handling of emails classified as secret.

Wikileaks previously released classified documents from U.S. soldier PFC Bradley Manning. In 2010 it published 250,000 sensitive U.S. embassy cables. In 2012, as reported by the Sydney Morning Herald  “The US military…designated Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as ‘enemies of the United States for releasing declassified US Air Force counter-intelligence documents’… The suspected offence was ‘communicating with the enemy’… an article in the US Uniform Code of Military Justice that prohibits military personnel from ‘communicating, corresponding or holding intercourse with the enemy.”

But the Obama Administration only truly became enraged at Assange when he released embarrassing information about Clinton in her presidential bid.

As noted by Politico “WikiLeaks has taken on a greater role in the presidential election in recent days, releasing thousands of pages of allegedly hacked emails from the personal account of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. Neither the Clinton campaign nor Podesta himself has verified the authenticity of the emails, which detail the inner working of the former secretary of state’s White House bid. Podesta is far from the only high-level political figure to become the target of online hackers. An attack on the email systems of the Democratic National Committee yielded embarrassing messages that led to the resignation of committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz just days before the start of her party’s nominating convention in Philadelphia…”
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Assange had promised that in the remaining weeks before the U.S. presidential election he would publish further information that could implicate Clinton in additional law breaking.

A sidebar to the Wikileaks information about Clinton has been the attempts by the media and the Obama Administration to implicate the Russian government in the information dumps, on the premise that Moscow preferred Trump to win the election.  The concept is illogical. It was Clinton, along with Obama, that engineered the “reset” with Russia that gave the Kremlin the lead, for the first time in history, in nuclear weapons, and those two made no substantive response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As noted previously, Clinton also was instrumental in the transfer of uranium to Moscow. Clearly, Putin would profit from a Clinton presidency.

Wikileaks has become a significant issue even in down-ticket races.  In New York, Wendy Long, the Republican candidate opposing incumbent Senator Chuck Schumer (best known for introducing legislation that would weaken the First Amendment) called for a “full, complete, and absolute pardon” to be extended to  Wikileaks  founder Julian  Assange  for any potential violations of U.S. law, “on the ground that he has served a far greater good of truth and transparency. Long stated that “Julian Assange has shed the light of truth on matters that the American people need to know to conduct self-government under our Constitution.  Investigative journalism is dead in this country, and citizen journalists are trying to fill the void. We know that almost 100 percent of the mainstream media are in the tank for Hillary Clinton. And were it not for Julian Assange, we would not know that: * she dreams of a ‘hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders’* she believes that a politician must have ‘a public and private position’on issues* her team that disparages Catholics and evangelicals, and is plotting a ‘Catholic Spring’* her campaign was in touch with Obama Department of Justice officials about the release of her emails* the State Department sought a quid pro quo with the FBI on reclassifiying some of her emails.”Assange is the only source of transparency and truth that most Americans now have about some of the most important matters affecting this election and our country.  We need him, we need his help, and we need him on the side of America. We should pardon him and do all that we can to get his assistance in the future on behalf of the American people.”

While it has not been definitively proven who ordered the cut to Assange’s internet, Wikileaks has claimed that a “state party” is responsible, and the trail seems to lead to the White House, eager to see Ms. Clinton elected, influencing the Ecuadorian government to cut the connection.  The connection was cut shortly after Wikileaks published embarrassing remarks made by Clinton during a private speech to the financial firm Goldman Sachs.