Quid Pro Quo: GOP Congressman Rohrbacher meets with Assange who now claims to have proof Russia had no part in the DNC hack. And as part of the obvious bargain, Rohrbacher says Trump should pardon Assange and give ole Wikileaks a seat at White House Press briefings.
It’s unsurprising Assange would be willing to lie for Russia since, according to US Intelligence, Wikileaks is a tool for Russian propaganda hostile against the USA. This view of Wikileaks is also born out by the revelation that Wikileaks turned down damaging leaks about the Russian Govt in the last US election.
What seems surprising is the the length Rohrbacher is willing to go as intermediary between and advocate for the Assange/Russia/Trump triangle. Especially since he’s already called “Putin’s favorite congressman”. To meet with Assange and then claim the guy holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy has info with “earth shattering impact” concerning Russia’s role in the DNC hack and thus deserves a pardon and a seat at the White House... seems audacious over-reaching or gross stupidity. I’m going with gross stupidity. It’s been explained by experts in how Russia gains assets, many times the assets aren’t even aware they’re doing Putin’s bidding.
This whole charade comes across as an attempt to build a lie big enough for Trump to hide under.
CIA director calls WikiLeaks Russia-aided "non-state hostile intelligence service"
CIA Director Mike Pompeo blasted WikiLeaks Thursday as a “hostile” intelligence service often aided by questionable actors like Russia.
“It is time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is -- a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia,” the former Republican congressman from Kansas said in his prepared remarks, speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in his first major appearance since taking the post.
Pompeo said the intelligence community’s determination that Russian military intelligence used WikiLeaks to release data of U.S. victims obtained through cyber operations against the Democratic National Committee points to that conclusion, as does the intelligence community’s discovery that Russia’s “primary propaganda outlet,” RT, “actively collaborated” with WikiLeaks. The DNC hack in 2016 exposed thousands of emails of top Democratic party and campaign officials, possibly contributing to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s unexpected loss in the presidential race.
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Wikileaks Turned Down Leaks On Russian Government During US Presidential Campaign
In the summer of 2016, as WikiLeaks was publishing documents from Democratic operatives allegedly obtained by Kremlin-directed hackers, Julian Assange turned down a large cache of documents related to the Russian government, according to chat messages and a source who provided the records.
WikiLeaks declined to publish a wide-ranging trove of documents — at least 68 gigabytes of data — that came from inside the Russian Interior Ministry, according to partial chat logs reviewed by Foreign Policy.
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Rohrabacher: Assange Info Will Have ‘Earth-Shattering Political Impact’
“He reaffirmed his aggressive denial that the Russians had anything to do with the hacking of the DNC during the election," Rohrabacher said of Assange, the Orange County Register reported.
Rohrabacher’s statements come despite the fact that U.S. intelligence authorities have said with “high confidence” that Russia interfered with the 2016 presidential election.
Rohrabacher is often referred to as “Putin’s favorite congressman” for his sympathetic views toward Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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“I think it will have an earth-shattering political impact," Rohrabacher said. "It wouldn’t be so important if Democrats hadn’t focused so inordinately on the Russians. Democrats are creating a total upheaval over this."
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WikiLeaks seeks White House press briefing seat
WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange told a visiting congressman the secret-spilling site would like a seat at White House press briefings.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican, told the Washington Examiner he supports the primary source publisher's goal.
"It didn't sound unreasonable to me," he said in a phone call from London on Thursday, two days after what he said was a three-hour meeting with Assange in Ecuador's U.K. embassy
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