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In reply to the discussion: Context and the Assange case. [View all]hifiguy
(33,688 posts)on people they are targeting, including by way of traps like this? Have you read ANYTHING about the history of the CIA, which is ultimately behind this? The focus of the spy agencies on Assange has been nicey documented in this very thread. Espionage agencies don't spend millions of dollars dogging one person unless they consider that person to be a direct danger to the people who call the big-time shots in the world.
Do you think spies hold tea parties and ice cream socials to do their work? They sneak, deceive, SPY, trap, intimidate and co-opt people. That is what spies have done since the time of the pharoahs. It's the reason they exist.
Who Assange is and what he has done by releasing the truth about the masters of war and approvers of torture, made him a target. How anyone can be so spectacularly dense and unable to recognize that governments consider him an incredibly high-value target and dangerous threat to the status quo is, quite frankly, beyond belief and something only a willfully ingorant or hoplessly naive person could believe. Which are you?