![]() How does this frightening tale of CIA planned illegality impact this week’s appeal hearing? The plans were discussed at the highest level in the CIA and even got as far as discussions with British officials, whose only objections were that if firearms were to be used or cars rammed on British streets it should be by UK spooks not American spooks who were involved. Yahoo News interviewed over 30 serving and former CIA officers and revealed that the agency had discussed the possibility of kidnapping or even assassinating Julian Assange while he was seeking asylum in the Ecuadorean embassy in London. The most important part of the US appeal is the ‘assurances’ that the US is offering that Julian Assange will not undergo the most Draconian incarceration that the American prison system has to offer.īut explosive findings about the CIA by an investigative journalism team at Yahoo News have exposed just how hollow are those assurances. That attempt was frustrated at the start of this year when Westminster Magistrates Court ruled that Assange would be at risk of suicide if he were incarcerated in the US prison system, which the Judge said was ‘oppressive’. United States’ lawyers will launch an appeal at the High Court tomorrow in an attempt to restart Julian Assange’s extradition to America. ![]() As Julian Assange comes back to court, John Rees looks at the revelations that the CIA were prepared to kidnap or kill the founder of Wikileaks ![]()
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