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| | ::::'''Update:''' [https://consortiumnews.com/2021/10/02/what-the-yahoo-assange-report-got-wrong/ What the Yahoo! Assange Report Got Wrong], excerpted: | | ::::'''Update:''' [https://consortiumnews.com/2021/10/02/what-the-yahoo-assange-report-got-wrong/ What the Yahoo! Assange Report Got Wrong], excerpted: |
| − | :::::''The reaction to the 7,000-word piece by Yahoo! News on Sunday proves the axiom that until something appears in the mainstream media, it didn’t happen. | + | :::::''The reaction to the 7,000-word piece by Yahoo! News on Sunday proves the axiom that until something appears in the mainstream media, it didn’t happen. The thrust of the Yahoo! article is that the Obama administration was good to Assange while elements of the Trump administration plotted the assassination or abduction before taking the acceptable path of making a legal case against Assange. But the legal case is also troubling. The article also sets up a misleading idea that the CIA’s extrajudicial methods, such as assassination and abduction, sometimes as freelance acts without a presidential directive,'' |
| − | The thrust of the Yahoo! article is that the Obama administration was good to Assange while elements of the Trump administration plotted the assassination or abduction before taking the acceptable path of making a legal case against Assange. But the legal case is also troubling. | |
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| − | The article also sets up a misleading idea that the CIA’s extrajudicial methods, such as assassination and abduction, sometimes as freelance acts without a presidential directive,'' | |
| | ::::There is a whole lot more. | | ::::There is a whole lot more. |
| | ::::''The Yahoo! report provides important new details of facts reported a year ago, but contains several errors, including a fabricated story about Russian operatives ....while at the same time providing important new details about inside-Washington deliberations on how the plot came about.'' | | ::::''The Yahoo! report provides important new details of facts reported a year ago, but contains several errors, including a fabricated story about Russian operatives ....while at the same time providing important new details about inside-Washington deliberations on how the plot came about.'' |
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