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   From: d@ray   
      
   🇺🇸 Former CIA Director Mike Pompeo's plot to have Julian Assange   
   kidnapped or assassinated coming out in court may have been the catalyst   
   for the Biden administration to give the Wikileaks founder a plea deal.   
      
   National security reporter Zach Dorfman, one of the co-authors who exposed   
   the plot along with Sean D. Naylor and Michael Isikoff, put forward the   
   theory Tuesday on Twitter.   
      
   "When Sean D. Naylor, Isikoff and I reported CIA Director Mike Pompeo   
   lobbied to kidnap Julian Assange and render him to US -- and CIA had even   
   toyed with lethal plans for the WikiLeaks founder -- we heard about   
   objections to the plots. One stands out today," Dorfman tweeted.   
      
   "During the Trump administration, even many harsh critics of Assange, who   
   wholeheartedly supported prosecuting him, thought Pompeo's extraordinary   
   rendition plots foolhardy in the extreme, and probably illegal," he added.   
   "They also -- critically -- thought it might harm Assange's prosecution."   
      
   "Former Trump administration and US intelligence officials directly engaged   
   in discussions about Assange argued strenuously that, should Pompeo's and   
   CIA's plans come to light, it could make the discovery process nightmarish   
   for the prosecution, should Assange ever see trial," Dorfman continued.   
      
      
      
      
      
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