Comey intervened to kill WikiLeaks’ immunity deal; Wanted Assange Silenced

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Comey intervened to kill WikiLeaks’ immunity deal; Wanted Assange Silenced about DNC emails, Likely Seth Rich Intel
Posted on June 25, 2018
True Pundit

Disturbing revelations from the FBI and DOJ who had negotiated a deal to get Julian Assange to talk about the DNC email leak.

The effort resulted in the drafting of a limited immunity deal that might have temporarily freed the WikiLeaks founder from a London embassy where he has been exiled for years, according to interviews and a trove of internal DOJ documents turned over to Senate investigators. Read the draft immunity deal proffer that the Justice Department was considering for Assange here.

But an unexpected intervention by Comey — relayed through Warner — soured the negotiations, multiple sources tell me. Assange eventually unleashed a series of leaks that U.S. officials say damaged their cyber warfare capabilities for a long time to come.  ...

See also the story from The Hill:

How Comey intervened to kill WikiLeaks' immunity deal
By John Solomon, opinion contributor — 06/25/18 05:45 PM EDT

One of the more devastating intelligence leaks in American history — the unmasking of the CIA’s arsenal of cyber warfare weapons last year — has an untold prelude worthy of a spy novel.

Some of the characters are household names, thanks to the Russia scandal: James Comey, fired FBI director. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Department of Justice (DOJ) official Bruce Ohr. Julian Assange, grand master of WikiLeaks. And American attorney Adam Waldman, who has a Forrest Gump-like penchant for showing up in major cases of intrigue.

Each played a role in the early days of the Trump administration to try to get Assange to agree to “risk mitigation” — essentially, limiting some classified CIA information he might release in the future.   ...

Lengthy - read entire article here.