Posted on 08/17/2017 7:08:07 PM PDT by be-baw
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.”
Just WHO in the Do-JustUS wants his head?
I suspect this Congress critter is simply trying to get some attention.
Rohrabacher is a hot mess. Ignore.
But it could mean that it’s because she knows what he has.
If Assange had asked for a meeting I would think he has something to offer, but Rohrabacher asked for the meeting. Why?
Perhaps Rohrabacher is trying to undermine whatever efforts Trump has going with regard to Assange... who knows.
This is a major story. Dana is 100% good man. Julianne Assange is a national hero of statue purportions. He has proof that Donald Trump and his administration have been totally LIED about to bring him down on the russian sillyness. It is imperative that Trump hit this hard and fast with out any mercy. There is no mercy to him and we want immediate amnesty for Sheriff Joe and this silliness with Montefort . Start acting like President Donald or squander the office we put you in KICK ASS!! NOW!!!
Whether or not Seth Rich supplied the DNC emails to Wikileaks would be something worth knowing and would blow open the cover up I believe has been going on since his death.
Why would the DOJ want to charge Assange for helping Snowden when NYt and WAPO writers published leaked national security information on a regular basis, and get little lucite plaque and are treated as heroes for doing it.
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