DC: California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Wednesday in an effort to obtain information about the source of a leak of Democratic officials’ emails.
Rohrabacher told The Daily Caller in an exclusive interview Thursday that Assange is hoping to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he is currently in asylum, and that during the meeting they explored “what might be necessary to get him out.”
The congressman told TheDC that “if [Assange] is going to give us a big favor, he would obviously have to be pardoned to leave the Ecuadorian embassy.” Assange took asylum in the embassy in August 2012 after facing sexual assault charges in Sweden. The Justice Department also reportedly wants to charge Assange for helping Edward Snowden, a former NSA analyst, leak thousands of classified documents.
“He has information that will be of dramatic importance to the United States and the people of our country as well as to our government,” Rohrabacher said. “Thus if he comes up with that, you know he’s going to expect something in return. He can’t even leave the embassy to get out to Washington to talk to anybody if he doesn’t have a pardon. Obviously there is an issue there that needs to be dealt with, but we haven’t come to any conclusion yet.”
The U.S. intelligence community has said Russia was involved in the hacking and leaking of emails from the Democratic National Committee during the presidential election. Assange has continued to maintain that Russia was not WikiLeaks’ source and has long maintained that he would never reveal a source. more here
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The MSM would go nuts, but Trump wouldn’t care.
The disclosures, if any, and what they amount to, would have to be yuge to make that deal.
Get Him in and Bring Him to The States, Before Another Country Does the Same.
He’s Loaded with Secrets We’d Rather Have Close to Home !
Assange has consistently and repeatedly implied that Seth Rich was his DNC source. Assange posted a $20K cash reward for any info on Rich’s murder almost immediately.
Rich is the obvious source: access, opportunity, and motive.
I say pardon Assange. He opened the nations’ eyes to the corruption and evils of both DNC and Podesta.
Plus the Left’s heads will explode.
This would be so much fun if this were to happen. Can you IMAGINE Trump totally unleashed. Most Democrats, some Republican and all of the Media would be jumping out of window from a really high building.
NOBODY says “I Told You So” better than Donald J Trump.
I dare them.
Never heard of this guy. Coronado California. A Navy town. Turns out he was one of Reagan’s speech writers. Pretty impressive resume.
depose him first, under oath to be sure what he knows. Give him 24/7 protection by Navy Seals. The DNC wants him dead, and will stop at nothing to keep him from testifying. I wish Roharbacher had kept his big mouth shut, though.
All President Trump needs to say when pardoning him is “Eric Holder, Lois Lerner, Hillary Clinton – I am justified in pardoning just about anyone”
Pardon him and see what rolls out.
They wouldn’t pardon J.A. unless he promised before hand to finger a phony Trump operative of their choosing.
Did you see his latest tweet about an hour ago?
Sorry do not know how to post. He basically is calling out all the DEMS for Seth Rich.
The dems pushed their luck to far. They committed crimes they thought the election of Hillary would keep buried. Then came Trump. Oh sh:t!
One of the few decent politicians CA has left – maybe the only one.
Wait – Ed Royce is the other one.