Gateway Pundit reported On Dec. 16 that Project Veritas, a private investigative group, released a phone call from State Department lawyer Cliff Johnson on Aug. 26, 2011, when Assange was under house arrest in London.
At the time, Mr. Assange called the State Department and warned that a quarter of a million diplomatic communications containing classified State Department documents could be released without redaction by former employees of wikileaks, and that government workers involved could be at risk.
The story simply goes like this. Assange and wikileaks obtained 250,000 classified and unclassified diplomatic cables from the U.S. State Department. They were intended to be edited and released, but the original documents were stolen by the original employees, and wikileaks had no control over the release of the 250,000 diplomatic cables. Immediately realizing that the release of the documents would put U.S. agents in a hostile country at risk, Mr. Assange called the State Department and the U.S. Embassy in London. The recording was made in response to a call to Mr. Assange by State Department attorney John Johnson.
Gateway experts said the content of the audio conversation was’ stunning ‘and showed Mr. Assange doing his best to mitigate the damage caused by the release of the U.S. diplomatic cables. Because Assange is under house arrest and cannot go to the US embassy, Assange has asked the US embassy to send someone to interview him, so that Assange can provide the link and password to the documents to the US, because Assange does not want to provide this information over an insecure communication line. But the U.S. embassy in London did not send a person to the house arrest to meet with Mr. Assange.
The result was that three months later, on November 28, wikileaks released 250,000 secret diplomatic cables sent to the State Department from U.S. embassies abroad. The documents included some U.S. diplomatic transactions and U.S. diplomats’ views on the secrets of some countries.
Gateway experts also point out that it is clear from the audio that wikileaks has spent nine months working diligently to protect people at risk and slowly rolling out the story after the information has been verified and appropriately truncated. So Assange is publishing, and he’s doing it very responsibly.
Gateway experts reported that the U.S. government knew other companies were the first to leak the documents, but never charged them or singled them out, as it did with Mr. Assange. The evidence is clear that the indictment against Assange is selective and political.
Julian Assange, who is being held in London pending a decision on whether to be extradited to the United States, made a formal plea for clemency from President Donald Trump on Tuesday.
Australian Lawmaker George Christensen also called on President Trump on December 12 to pardon Assange, an Australian citizen who he said had become a target for Democrats by exposing Clinton.
The day before this year’s election, the Justice Department released an updated version of its Investigation into Russia, showing that special counsel Mueller’s team tried to accuse Assange and wikileaks of colluding with Trump’s former campaign adviser Roger Stone to influence the election, but abandoned it for lack of evidence. That refers to the July 2016 release of information obtained by wikileaks from the Servers of the Democratic National Committee, which showed that the Democratic Party improperly favored Hillary Clinton in her race against Bernie Sanders for the party’s presidential nomination.
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