Assange Cancels Live Balcony Announcement Over ‘Security Concerns’

Wikileaks and its controversial founder, Julian Assange, have managed to stay in the press largely due to the damaging information on politicians and their confidential communications that the group has released to the public.  Assange fled to the Ecuadorian embassy in London to take refuge from certain capture and prosecution by the U.S. and other nations.  He remains there and remains a center of controversy.

He has so antagonized top politicians that at least one has suggested he be assassinated.  This was in 2010 when he was moving about rather freely, before moving into the Ecuadorian embassy.  Guess who would make such a threat?

Clinton’s State Department was getting pressure from President Obama and his White House inner circle, as well as heads of state internationally, to try and cutoff Assange’s delivery of the cables and if that effort failed, then to forge a strategy to minimize the administration’s public embarrassment over the contents of the cables. Hence, Clinton’s early morning November meeting of State’s top brass who floated various proposals to stop, slow or spin the Wikileaks contamination. That is when a frustrated Clinton, sources said, at some point blurted out a controversial query.

“Can’t we just drone this guy?” Clinton openly inquired, offering a simple remedy to silence Assange and smother Wikileaks via a planned military drone strike, according to State Department sources.

If the drone thing didn’t work, could another approach be employed?

Following Clinton’s alleged drone proposal, another controversial remedy was floated in the State Department to place a reward or bounty for Assange’s capture and extradition to the United States, sources said. Numbers were discussed in the realm of a $10 million bounty. A State Department source described that staff meeting as bizarre. One minute staffers were inquiring about the Secretary’s blue and black checkered knit sweater and the next minute, the room was discussing the legalities of a drone strike on Assange and financial bounties, sources said.

Nobody should ever accuse Hillary of allowing herself to be limited only to legal ways of solving her problems.

So fast-forward to today.  Hillary is in a close and ugly campaign for president.  Assange is relatively safe, ensconced in Ecuador’s London embassy making promises of further data dumps of confidential and incredibly damaging information, and then delaying those revelations over concerns for his safety.  What’s next?

After canceling a planned announcement in London, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is now planning to appear via video link Tuesday [October 4] morning at Wikileak’s tenth anniversary celebration in Berlin. He’s a last-minute addition to the roster of festivities taking place this week in Germany.

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According the Wikileaks, the change of venue was made “due to specific information”. Wikileaks did not specify further, but Monday’s Tweet followed several in which Wikileaks alleged that the Clinton camp wants to assassinate Assange.

There’s that threat of assassination by Team Clinton coming up again.  And nothing is certain about Assange’s appearance by video on Tuesday.

Sources close to the event tell Heat Street that Assange may be planning to release some new information his organization has obtained about the U.S. Democratic Party. But Heat Street has yet to receive independent confirmation that Assange plans to dump information specifically on Hillary Clinton.

So there you have it — all the makings of a thriller.  The threat that Clinton and associates might try to “rub-out” Assange.  The possibility that information devastating to Clinton might be released.  And the appearance by video of Assange from his sanctuary in an embassy with no idea what he’s going to say or what information he might release.

Stay tuned.

Source:  True Pundit

Source: Heat Street