Democratic
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton reportedly wanted to drone
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange when she was secretary of state.
According to
True Pundit, Clinton and the state department were under pressure to
silence Assange and Wikileaks in the months before the whistleblowing
site released a massive dump of 250,000 diplomatic cables from 1966
up to 2010, dubbed CableGate.
“Can’t
we just drone this guy?” Clinton asked, according to
unidentified state department sources.
Published by
True Pundit on Sunday, Wikileaks posted a link to the story on their
official Twitter account on Monday, along with a screenshot of the
article.
Clinton and
the state department held numerous meetings to discuss what could be
done about Assange and his site which had already exposed damning
military secrets about the war in Afghanistan and Iraq before the
promised document dump was to come. The department was under pressure
from both the White House and foreign governments to silence
Wikileaks.
True Pundit
reports the people in the room with Clinton on November 23, 2010
laughed at her comment, until it became clear that the then-secretary
of state was serious. Clinton was reportedly fuming and referred to
Assange as a “soft target.”
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