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In reply to the discussion: Context and the Assange case. [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)The FBI is not the CIA and even the FBI is not the J. Edgar Hoover FBI of Ethel Rosenberg times. The various inaccuracies and liberties you take with your analogies and analysis may work for some folks but it doesn't work for me.
Having actually spoken with folks in intelligence agencies I can tell you that they are very no-nonsense folks. They are certainly not above an elaborate conspiracy scheme if that is what it takes to accomplish something but that is a last resort. The first and most likely action that any intelligence agency would take against someone who poses enough of a security risk that they are tasked to deal with them is to shoot that person. And there would have been no reason not to do that in Assange's case if the CIA had been assigned to deal with him. The rape charge accomplishes nothing that silencing him permanently several years ago wouldnt have accomplished and would have done better.
The bigger problem you have is that Assange isn't one one thousandth the national security threat that would have gotten the CIA ordered to take action against him. The CIA is overtasked with trying to prevent the next terrorist attack. They are tracking tens of thousands of people all over the globe, trying to infiltrate and track every Al-Qaeda and ISIS affiliate and on top of that Russia and China are behaving badly and they are a big concern. Assange is nothing compared to any of that.