[woodpusher]

There is a bit of a difference between a "journalist who reveals criminal behavior on the part of a government agency" and one that commits hacking and espionage primarily, and is a journalist secondarily.

What is your evidence that Assange hacked Vault 7? Assange did not, and there is none.

CIA routinely considers all possible ways to deal with such threats, as it should.

Assassination is murder. Some people believe government officials have the lawful authority to murder those they do not like. They believe the CIA can, does, and should act as a Star Chamber, being judge, jury and executioner.

I will say furthermore that if there are Americans supporting such threats, aligning with members of foreign Libertarian party elements, as well as spy elements, and engaging in deceptive campaigns against patriotic leaders such as Pompeo because he stands in the way of international libertarian and socialist conspiracies, CIA should consider all possible actions against them as well.

I would further say that anyone who would say suich crap without doing the least bit of research into the case at hand, speaking without knowing what he is talking about, has probably earned a Judge Juan Merchan gag order.

A former CIA employee based in the United States was tried and convicted for copying the information and uploading it to Wikileaks.

There would have been nothing patriotic about murdering Julian Assange for publishing information that had been given by an American to Wikileaks. The person who leaked the information was apprehended, tried and convicted. The person who actually did the crime was not executed.

Perhaps you think Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald should also be executed by the CIA for informing the public of illegal CIA programs and spying on Americans.

Freedom of the press is in the First Amendment for a reason.

https://www.boston.com/news/national-news/2017/03/07/wikileaks-publishes-cia-trove-alleging-wide-scale-hacking/

WikiLeaks publishes CIA trove alleging wide scale hacking

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It was not immediately clear how WikiLeaks obtained the information, which included more than 8,700 documents and files. The CIA tools, if authentic, could undermine the confidence that consumers have in the safety and security of their computers, mobile devices and even smart TVs.

WikiLeaks said the material came from “an isolated, high-security network situated inside the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, Virginia.” It didn’t say how the files were removed, such as possibly by a rogue employee, by hacking a federal contractor working for the CIA or breaking into a staging server where such hacking tools might be temporarily stored.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/13/23208635/cia-wikileaks-vault-7-joshua-schulte-conviction

Ex-CIA engineer convicted for sending classified hacking tools and info to WikiLeaks / Prosecutors said Joshua Schulte intentionally leaked the “Vault 7” cache of tools he’d helped build

By Richard Lawler, a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget.

Jul 13, 2022, 6:02 PM CDT

On Wednesday, a jury in New York convicted ex-Central Intelligence Agency engineer Joshua Schulte on all nine charges he faced (as first reported by @InnerCityPress) as a result of the single largest leak in agency history. Dubbed Vault 7, the files and information shared by WikiLeaks in 2017 exposed a trove of tactics and exploits the CIA used to hack its targets’ computers, iPhones or Android phones, and even Samsung smart TVs.

[...]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Schulte

Joshua Adam Schulte (born September 25, 1988) is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee who was convicted of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks published the documents as Vault 7, which The New York Times called "the largest loss of classified documents in the agency's history and a huge embarrassment for C.I.A. officials." After his conviction, the Department of Justice called it "one of the most brazen and damaging acts of espionage in American history."

On September 13, 2023, Schulte was also convicted of receiving, possessing, and transporting child sexual abuse images. On February 1, 2024, he was sentenced to 40 years in prison for espionage and child pornography.

[Right Wing Vegan]

-What is your evidence that Assange hacked Vault 7?

Where is your evidence that his assassination was even planned? Remember I was just speaking generally of CIA responsibility of planning for all possible contingencies. But as to the specific "proof" you just have, at root, a yahoo article referring to anonymous "senior officials".

For years this foreigner had been acquiring records from a variety of sources, including from his own espionage and hacking in the guise of various entities as a cover. Even what he acquired from others was due to his position of deep involvement in hacking and espionage community and ties to traitors in the US. He is not the New York Times. And be sure there are records that our government cannot even admit he obtained. CIA rightfully set its sights on him, even more for what he may pry into next and take it upon himself to release than what he has already. Foreigners are not to be the watchdog of our government.