How Mike Pompeo Managed The Arrest Of Julian Assange

By Nidal Hmade

WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, became a unique phenomenon within the American secret system after revealing millions of documents that exposed the actions of US politicians around the world and the atrocities committed by the American military in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In his world, he faced off with the deep state in the US that does not forgive those who attack it or expose the nature of the American ruling elite in Washington and around the world and how they treat global citizens and rulers, especially those in so-called third world countries.

The journey to bring down Assange began after the appointment of Mike Pompeo as director of the Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] and before he became Secretary of State.

According to a New York Times report in 2018, shortly after his appointment as CIA director, Mike Pompeo told a congressional committee closed-door meeting that the agency had a new target: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

The New York Times added that Mike Pompeo and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions launched a hostile campaign against Assange in revolt against the official American position during Barack Obama’s term when Wikileaks was accepted as a press organization and therefore those running it could not be prosecuted.

In April 2017, Pompeo was still director of the CIA.

"We can no longer allow Assange and his colleagues the latitude to use free speech values against us," Pompeo declared in a bold speech at the time, threatening Assange. “To give them the space to crush us with misappropriated secrets is a perversion of what our great Constitution stands for. It ends now."

A number of European websites suggest that the Trump administration carried out a pre-emptive strike against Julian Assange. They claim the WikiLeaks founder was about to leak documents and information regarding Russian support for Donald Trump during his election campaign in 2016, which could aid the campaign of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who was assigned to investigate the alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

For his part, US President Donald Trump, who frequently cited WikiLeaks during his electoral campaign, made a U-turn after winning the presidency. Following the announcement by British police of Assange’s arrest, Trump stated that he knew nothing about him and did not care about Wikileaks or what it posts. Will Assange’s arrest prevent the publishing of Russian intervention documents in support of Trump during his electoral campaign, or do those who manage the site –but are still free – have a different opinion?