In January 2017 Assange's legal team approached [[Adam Waldman]] to see if the new [[Trump administration]] would negotiate with the WikiLeaks founder, holed up in Ecuador's London embassy. They hoped Waldman, a former Clinton Justice Department official, might navigate the U.S. law enforcement bureaucracy and find the right people to engage. | In January 2017 Assange's legal team approached [[Adam Waldman]] to see if the new [[Trump administration]] would negotiate with the WikiLeaks founder, holed up in Ecuador's London embassy. They hoped Waldman, a former Clinton Justice Department official, might navigate the U.S. law enforcement bureaucracy and find the right people to engage. |