What Does Julian Assange Know About Hillary Clinton That She Doesn’t Want Exposed?

In the brouhaha of his arrest, will Time get to tell the tawdry tale?

, --April 12, 2019

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What Does Julian Assange Know About Hillary Clinton That She Doesn’t Want Exposed?Failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has done far worse to Julian Assange than what the UK police did when they yanked him out of his Ecuadorian Embassy hideaway of seven years yesterday. Without proof of any kind, without a trial, Clinton has accused the organization Assange founded of playing “a dangerous role” in her 2016 electoral defeat.
By telling a crowd in New York that Assange needs to "answer for what he has done,” she has already cast him in a guilty-as-charged environment. What is Hillary Clinton afraid Assange will say if he is tried by the U.S. for Wikileaks? When the former Secretary of State was accused during the 2016 presidential race of wanting to launch a drone strike at Wikileaks, she had an inconclusive answer. “At a press conference in Harrisburg on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton said she does not recall ever floating the idea of blowing up WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with a drone strike, and if she ever had, it was a joke. Assange claims that she wasn't joking, citing online reports. (RealClearPolitics, Oct. 5, 2016)
"I don’t recall any joke,” Clinton said Tuesday afternoon. “It would have been a joke, if it had been said, but I don’t recall that.”
Point of fact: she didn’t say she didn’t float the idea—but only IF she ever had she would have been joking, adding that she didn’t even recall the joke. Assange, who faces extradition to the U.S. on a charge of computer hacking conspiracy, says he fears being “beaten up” in U.S. prison.
“After nearly seven years holed up inside the cramped Ecuadorian Embassy in London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is dreading the prospect of violent attacks on him in an American prison, one of his regular visitors told ABC News' The Investigation podcast on Thursday. (ABC News, April 12, 2019)
“In an interview for ABC News’ “The Investigation” podcast conducted one day after Assange's long-anticipated arrest by London police and court appearance on a 2012 bail jumping warrant and U.S. extradition request, one of his most frequent visitors described Assange’s fears of being sent to a US prison and subjected to violence inside. "He did say he was worried that, if he was in a normal American prison, being beaten up,” war documentary filmmaker and former Taliban hostage Sean Langan, who has spent more than 50 hours with Assange in the past year, told ABC News. Langan’s last visit to Assange at the embassy was on March 22, he said.”
Assange, incarcerated in a British prison, until an early May court appearance, doesn’t seem worried about how he may be treated there even though it is alleged that popular activist Tommy Robinson faced physical violence during his imprisonment there.
The timing of Assange’s somewhat melodramatic arrest is worthy of note since it happened two days after AG Bill Barr announced the bombshell that he believed the Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign. Wikileaks is an organization that exposes classified and top secret information to the public at large. Among the many outed by Wikileaks were some 9,000 supposed current and former ICE employees. None of them was as vociferous as Hillary Clinton in calling out for Assange to be held accountable, or to “answer for what he has done’”. What is it that Julian Assange knows about Hillary Clinton that she does not want to come out? In the brouhaha of his arrest, will Time get to tell the tawdry tale?

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Judi McLeod—— -- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.