The House Intelligence Committee is seeking info about a Yahoo News report that CIA officials plotted to kidnap Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in 2017 after WikiLeaks published documents describing the spy agency’s hacking tools
a Yahoo News report
“We are seeking information about it now,” said Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, the committee chairman, in an interview on the Yahoo News “Skullduggery” podcast.Schiff added that, as the ranking Democrat on the intelligence panel in 2017, he was never briefed about the CIA’s plans to target Assange.
From left: Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., arrive for a hearing on July 27 on Capitol Hill. It also comes on the eve of a critical hearing before a British appellate court in London next week over the U.S. Justice Department’s appeal of a lower court judge’s ruling rejecting its request to extradite Assange to the United States to face trial for publishing classified documents in violation of the World War I-era Espionage Act.
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