NEW: Julian Assange just exposed the CIA in his first public hearing since his release. He says that they tried to assassinate him within the embassy, tried to attain DNA from his sixth-month-old son, had a CIA asset permanently track his wife, and attempted to hack and plant false information.
"We revealed the CIA's vast production of malware and viruses, it's subversion of supply chains...CIA Director Pompeo launched a campaign of retribution…
It is now a matter of public record that under Pompeo's explicit direction, the CIA drew up plans to kidnap and to assassinate me within the Ecuadorian embassy in London and authorize going after my European colleagues, subjecting us to theft, hacking attacks, and the planting of false information.
My wife and my infant son were also targeted. A CIA asset…was permanently assigned to track my wife, and instructions were given to obtain DNA from my six month old son's Nappy…
This is the testimony of more than thirty current and former US intelligence officials speaking to the US press, which has been additionally corroborated by record seized in a prosecution bought against some of the CIA agents involved…
The CIA's targeting of myself my family, and my associates through aggressive extrajudicial and extraterritorial means provides a rare insight into how powerful intelligence organizations engage in transnational repression. Such repressions are not unique. What is unique is that we know so much about this one due to numerous whistleblowers and to judicial investigations in Spain."
Julian Assange: The Intelligence Sector pushed for a reinterpretation of the US Constitution.
We angered one of the constituent powers of the United States, the intelligence sector, the security state the secrecy state. It was powerful enough to push for a reinterpretation of the US Constitution. The US First Amendment seems pretty black and white to me It's very short. It says that Congress shall make no law, restricting speech or the press.
"Looking at the US first amendment to its constitution, that no publisher had ever been prosecuted for publishing, classified information from the United States, either domestically or internationally…
I expected some kind of harassment legal process. I was prepared to fight for that. I believe the value of these publications was such, that it is okay to have that fight. And that we would prevail because we had understood, what was legally possible…
My naivete was believing in the law. When push comes to shove, laws are just pieces of paper, and they can be reinterpreted for political expediency. They are the rules made by the ruling class more broadly and if those rules don't suit what it wants to do, it reinterprets them, or hopefully changes them, which is clearer in the case of the United States, we angered one of the constituent powers of the United States, the intelligence sector, the security state the secrecy state. It was powerful enough to push for a reinterpretation of the US Constitution. The US First Amendment seems pretty black and white to me It's very short. It says that Congress shall make no law, restricting speech or the press."
Mike