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Revealed: Russia's secret plan to help Julian Assange escape from UK
Russian diplomats held secret talks in London last year with people close to Julian Assange to assess whether they could help him flee the UK, the Guardian has learned.
A tentative plan was devised that would have seen the WikiLeaks founder smuggled out of Ecuador's London embassy in a diplomatic vehicle and transported to another country.
One ultimate destination, multiple sources have said, was Russia, where Assange would not be at risk of extradition to the US. The plan was abandoned after it was deemed too risky.
The operation to extract Assange was provisionally scheduled for Christmas Eve in 2017, one source claimed, and was linked to an unsuccessful attempt by Ecuador to give Assange formal diplomatic status.
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(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 23 2018, @12:50PM
This means it was Trumps plan to help him escape. So perhaps he is in the witness protection program waiting for the right time to reveal the whole Seth Rich thing. The scandle where the dnc rigged the primaries against Bernie Sanders, probably had plans to rig the general election against Trump, and then had that guy killed for leaking it to wikileaks and named a bikerack after him.
Meanwhile the fbi is too busy classifying how much they are spending on conference room tables to investigate this.