Despite
Ecuador’s Denial, US Pressured Embassy to Cut Assange’s Internet
Despite
a denial from Ecuador that the United States pressured the country to
shutter Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s internet access, US
officials have stated that they did, in fact, put “quiet pressure”
on the nation.
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October, 2016
Assange’s
internet access was cut on Friday after the release of Hillary
Clinton’s controversial and previously secret paid Goldman Sachs
speeches.
“The
government of Ecuador respects the principle of non-intervention in
the internal affairs of other states,” Ecuador’s foreign ministry
said in a statement. “It does not interfere in external electoral
processes, nor does it favour any particular candidate.”
They also
expressly stated that their government “does not yield to pressure
from other states.” But the US intelligence community is not
keeping mum about the fact that they actually did pressure Quito to
take Assange offline.
"It was a bit of an eviction notice,"
a senior intelligence official told NBC News.
The US has asserted
that they believe Assange is a “willing participant” in a Russian
intelligence operation, by accepting and publishing documents
obtained by “Russian hackers” intending to influence the election
outcome. The Kremlin has repeatedly denied that they were involved in
the hacks or leaks.
"The general view is he is a willing
participant in the Russian scheme but not an active plotter in it.
They just realized they could use him," the official continued.
John Kerry was in the UK that day, which lead to speculation online
that he had a hand in it.
The State Department has denied any
involvement in Assange’s internet being disconnected, however.
"While our concerns about WikiLeaks are longstanding, any
suggestion that Secretary (John) Kerry or the State Department were
involved in shutting down WikiLeaks is false," State Department
spokesman John Kirby said in a statement.
However, the unnamed US
intelligence official speaking to NBC reportedly stated that “a
message was conveyed to Ecuador that it should stop allowing Assange
to carry water for Russian intelligence agencies, and that Ecuador,
though run by a leftist, anti-American government, was receptive.”
Interestingly, this all occurred as what appears to be a sham US
company was revealed to have attempted to set up Assange to accept
what they claimed was money from Russia, as well as smear him as a
pedophile.
WikiLeaks
RELEASE: Full docs and investigation into the plot to frame Assange as a paedophile & Russian spy #PedoPlot https://wikileaks.org/Background-and-Documents-on-Attempts-to-Frame-Assange-as-a-Pedophile-and.html?update3 …
The company, toddandclare.com, claims to be a dating site
for single women.
In a bizarre exchange, someone claiming to be a
representative of the company, Hannah Hammond, proposed Assange
appearing in one of their commercials for one million dollars. After
a skeptical response from Wikileaks, she sent another one detailing
the layout of the commercial — and how it would be funded.
“The
source of the $1 million is the Russian government. It will be wired
to Mr. Assange’s nominated account, upon his cooperation, and
before filming of the ToddandClare.com ad by the SoHo camera crew,”
Hammond wrote in a September 16 email.
The strange email raised many
red flags, and Wikileaks responded, demanding that, “you
immediately cease any plans that you have to use Mr. Assange’s name
to draw attention to your business.”
“Your email appears to
convey an elaborate scam designed to entrap Mr. Assange’s
reputation into unwanted and unwarranted publicity,” a Wikileaks
legal representative, identified only as James, responded the same
day.
Podesta's Emails After the rejection, the company then
filed a complaint with the United Nations, accusing Assange of having
used their site to molest a child using their website in the Bahamas.
Redditors and other internet sleuths began digging into the company’s
outlandish claims and found that toddandclare.com was linked to an
address in San Francisco that was previously used by a data firm
called Premise Data. Their cofounder, David Soloff, posted a photo of
himself and Clinton to social media earlier this year.
Soloff has
denied involvement with toddandclare.com.
Assange has been residing
in the Ecuadorian Embassy for over four years due to threat of being
extradited to the United States.
Despite his internet connection
being severed, Wikileaks has continued to publish daily batches of
hacked emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
Wikileaks
publishes list of Obama emails, reveals his address
20
October, 2016
Wikileaks
reveals first batch of emails involving US President Barack Obama.
WikiLeaks reveals first batch of US president Barack Obama emails sent via secret address bobama@ameritech.com https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/?q=bobama&mfrom=&mto=&title=¬itle=&date_from=&date_to=&nofrom=¬o=&count=50&sort=6#searchresult …
Within those are emails sent from secret address used by the
president.
The
first batch from Wikileaks are searchable under the email address
bobama@ameritech.net, an email account Obama was possibly using
before winning the election in November 2008.
Among
them is an
email,
dated October 30, 2008, from John Podesta to then-Senator Obama,
with a confidential attachment, discussing an economic transition
team, mapping out why Obama needs to get it up and running before his
term begins in January 2009.
“Paulson
and his subordinates do not believe they can responsibly defer until
after January 20 significant decisions concerning both the use of
TARP funds and other potential stabilizing measures,” it
says.
The
latest batch of emails are culled from a series of deals involving
Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. Podesta is a
long-term associate of the Clintons and was President Bill Clinton’s
Chief of Staff from 1998 to 2001, and Hillary Clinton's campaign
Chair. Podesta also served as Counselor to President Barack Obama.
Other
emails to "bobama@ameritech.net" do
not appear to have generated a reply from the future president.
In
one email sent at 7:39 p.m. on election night in 2008, Podesta emails
Obama with some last-minute thoughts on the upcoming G20 meeting. "I
don't want to bug you today," Podesta
wrote. "The
memo pasted below concerns a possible invitation to the G20 meeting
on November 15."
That
email would have reached Obama just 21 minutes before the major
television networks called the election in his favor, making him the
next president of the United States.
"On
the chance that President Bush would raise this with you tonight, I
wanted you to be aware that it is the unanimous recommendation for
your advisors that you NOT attend. As long as you are aware of that,
we can review the contents of the memo tomorrow."
In
the memo, staffers weighed the pros and cons of accepting an
invitation to the G20, if it were extended. On one hand, the meeting
just 11 days after the election would "afford
you an early and efficient opportunity to evaluate the positions of
leaders from other economically important countries," they
wrote.
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