Hey, hello, everyone.

This is Ben Norton.

This is moderate rebels live.

You probably have seen, if you follow the news in any way, that there was a big story in Yahoo News this week, admitting that the CIA, the Central Intelligence Agency, plotted to kidnap and also assassinate

Julian Assange, the journalist, political prisoner, founder and editor of WikiLeaks while he was

trapped in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. So we're going to talk about that story today.

Max, my colleague,

actually reported this back in 2020 over a year ago. And of course, because it was reported at the Gray Zone, an independent media outlet. And it was because it was Max reporting it and not a

mainstream pro-CIA journalist. Of course, it didn't get much attention at the time. But now

Michael Lysikoff, who is one of the CIA's loyal allies in the media, has admitted this in a

major story at Yahoo News. So we know that the CIA was considering killing, assassinating

Julian Assange, an incredible crime.

All these spooks going to Michael Isikoff, who relied on them to guide his Russia Gate

reporting to confirm my reporting in the gray zone on Julian Assange and the CIA proposal

to eliminate Assange through assassination or kidnap him. Why did they do that?

I mean, it seems like they just hate Pompeo. He's looking like he's going to run in 2024 or be a senator.

He, you know, was CIA director and he probably was someone who was horrible to work for.

And there's a, we all know from Russia Gate,

there's a faction of Democrats within the CIA.

So now Pompeo is calling to prosecute all of the official sources in Isikov's story.

That's how journalism should function, by the way,

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