#Assange #WikiLeaks #Torture
In a wide-ranging interview with News Beat, former CIA analyst and torture whistleblower John Kiriakou reflects on the Obama administration's aggressive prosecution of him after his 2007 interview publicly revealing that the US tortured suspected combatants during the war on terror. He then goes into the prosecution -- and ongoing persecution -- of WikiLeaks co-founder and publisher Julian Assange, who in June agreed to a plea deal with the US DOJ allowing him to leave a UK prison for freedom in his native Australia.
"The biggest problem that Julian had, was that almost everybody who considers himself or herself to be a Democrat blames Julian Assange for giving us Donald Trump," Kiriakou says. "And they were just convinced that he wasn't going to get a fair trial. It just wasn't possible to get a fair trial. Julian also didn't trust the Justice Department to respect the agreement. And that's why see there was they were at loggerheads for a long time because Justice insisted that Julian be brought to Alexandria, Virginia, that he takes the plea in the Eastern District of Virginia and then be expelled to Australia. And he said, no. He said I don't believe them. I don't trust them. And if they locked me up, I'm gonna kill myself."
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