9/27/21 Kevin Gosztola on the CIA’s War on Assange, Wikileaks and Journalism Itself

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Kevin Gosztola is back on the show to discuss a recent Yahoo! News article about Assange that went viral. Gosztola thinks the piece contains some good reporting but leans too much on a flawed Russiagate framing. Scott and Gosztola discuss the semantic war our government is waging with attempts to redefine certain journalists as “information brokers” and “non-state hostile intelligence agents.” Gosztola also gives an update on Assange’s situation as his next hearing approaches next month. Discussed on the show: “Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA's secret war plans against WikiLeaks” (Yahoo! News) “The CIA’s War On WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange” (Medium) In Defense of Jullian Assange — OR Books Top Secret America at the Washington Post “UN expert says "collective persecution" of Julian Assange must end now” (ohchr.org) Kevin Gosztola is managing editor of Shadowproof. He also produces and co-hosts the weekly podcast, “Unauthorized Disclosure.” Follow him on Twitter @kgosztola. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Dröm; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt; Lorenzotti Coffee and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.5	All right, so you guys, on the line is Kevin Gotstola.
0:48.3	He is from Shadowproof.com
0:50.6	and from the Dissenter.org, I think it is, back to the show how's going yeah you got it thanks it's good to be with you again
0:57.7	very good to have you here and man you do such a good job of covering all of the trials and tribulations of all of the great
1:06.1	whistleblowers of our generation here man and I don't know what we'd do without you I'm really
1:10.2	grateful for and in this case we have this really important article by
1:13.9	this nitwit Michael Isikoff and his buddies at Yahoo News about the Trump
1:19.3	administration apparently led by Mike Pompeo plotting to kill Julian Assange or kidnap him
1:25.5	prevent the Russians from secreting him out of the UK and at all costs and all of these crazy things and including discussions of during the Obama years,
1:40.0	you know, major discussions are the highest levels of whether to classify
1:44.4	Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitress although for some reason not Barton
1:48.8	Gellman
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