US intelligence community will ’stop at nothing’ to get Julian Assange

Julian Assange’s brother Gabriel Shipton says the report alleging the CIA explored assassinating the Wikileaks founder “confirms what we have known for a long time”. “We’ve known about these plots for a very long time, this report sort of confirms them with over 30 sources, you know, 30 sources speaking to these reporters, that’s including ex-officials from the intelligence community in the US,” he told Sky News Australia. Mr Shipton said there were plots to kidnap and murder Mr Assange which went as high as the White House and the US intelligence community will “stop at nothing” to get the Wikileaks creator. Mr Shipton said although the report was focussed on what was happening in US intelligence communities under former CIA Director Mike Pompeo, the prosecution of Mr Assange continues under the Biden administration. “This prosecution was put in place, this article talks about, this prosecution being put in place because they wanted to kidnap Julian and rendition him to the US but there was no charges l