DOJ Was Negotiating Julian Assange Immunity-Cooperation Deal But James Comey Killed It, WHY? – IOTW Report

DOJ Was Negotiating Julian Assange Immunity-Cooperation Deal But James Comey Killed It, WHY?

The Lid: Reporting from John Solomon at The Hill on Monday sheds light on a little-remarked episode in the Russiagate saga from February and March 2017.  It may hold the key to a lot. Solomon’s sources say that during negotiations with WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, from which the Justice Department hoped to get an immunity agreement and some cooperation with Assange on redacting information from upcoming WikiLeaks data dumps, FBI Director James Comey spiked the whole process.  Because of Comey, negotiations were shut down.

And, of particular interest to the Russiagate narrative, Assange was also offering to explain why the source of the John Podesta email data released by WikiLeaks in 2016 could not be the Russian hackers suspected by the FBI.  (Assange was not offering to disclose his source; only to discuss why his information indicated it could not be the Russians.)

After Comey shut the negotiations with Assange down, attempts to revive them were unsuccessful.  The end result was the devastating WikiLeaks release on 7 April 2017 of a CIA-developed hacking framework with which to build custom malware.  This wasn’t just information about the kind of capability the CIA had; it was code-level data.  more here

12 Comments on DOJ Was Negotiating Julian Assange Immunity-Cooperation Deal But James Comey Killed It, WHY?

  1. of course Comey quashed it … can’t have any interference w/ the anointing of the Queen Bee … after the election this will all be a big, what’s it called … a ‘nothing burger’? … yeah, that’s it

    ” … oops, there goes another rubber tree plant”
    PDT is the ant that can’t!

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