In documentary from German public TV, former CIA director Leon Panetta acts as a public face for the US prosecution against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The CIA has been possibly the most aggressive agency in the war on WikiLeaks.
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Leon Panetta: “You have to remember that throughout the history of this country we have had spies, and we’ve prosecuted spies. I think it was in that spirit that everybody said, okay, we have another spy—Assange.”
Leon Panetta: "Assange is somebody who will sell somebody in his family if he think that, you know, that he is going to get some attention.”
(This is the kind of comment that legal team can cite in their argument that this is political prosecution.)
Here is former CIA director Leon Panetta laughing when shown evidence of US-backed espionage operation against Assange.
"It doesn’t surprise me,” Panetta says. “That kind of thing goes on all the time.”
Panetta: "In intelligence business, the name of the game is to get information any way you can, and I’m sure that’s what was involved here.”
The ladies bathroom was bugged to eavesdrop on Assange and his attorneys. Tables on his mental state and sleep patterns were kept.
Panetta revealing more of the game behind Trump admin prosecuting Assange: "All you can do is hope that you can ultimately take action against those that were involved in revealing that information so you can send a message to others not to do the same thing.”
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