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In reply to the discussion: Context and the Assange case. [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)While intricate conspiracy theories sound exciting, if someone is deemed a national security threat big enough that a country has to engage it's CIA or GRU or MSS, or Mossad or MI6, etc. against them, 99.99% of the time they are simply going to have someone shoot that person.
Those agencies don't spend time dealing in intricate and difficult conspiracies unless there is no other option to get done what needs to get done. Contrary to what some believe those agencies all have limited manpower and don't have time to waste on nonsense.
Assange is simply not that big of a threat to the US to waste time on an intricate plan to discredit him. CIA is much more concerned about what Russia and China and Iran and North Korea are doing and what ISIS and Al Qaeda and their various affiliates are doing and just trying to get its hands around that takes every piece of manpower the CIA has and then some.