{"id":41225,"date":"2018-12-03T09:31:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T14:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41225"},"modified":"2018-12-03T09:31:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T14:31:27","slug":"assange-manafort-fabricated-story-is-a-plot-to-extradite-wikileaks-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41225","title":{"rendered":"Assange-Manafort Fabricated Story Is a Plot to Extradite WikiLeaks Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Assange-Manafort Fabricated Story Is a Plot to Extradite WikiLeaks Founder<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The apparently fabricated report by The Guardian linking Russiagate and Manafort to WikiLeaks is laying the case to arrest and extradite Julian Assange to the US, investigative journalist Max Blumenthal told RT.<\/p>\n

WikiLeaks is ready to sue Britain\u2019s Guardian newspaper for a\u00a0\u201cfabricated Manafort story\u201d<\/em>\u00a0that accused Julian Assange of secretly meeting Donald Trump\u2019s former election campaign chairman Paul Manafort.<\/p>\n

Manafort agreed to take part in the Mueller probe over Russia\u2019s alleged meddling into the 2016 US election but he denies co-operating with Russia or ever meeting Assange.<\/p>\n

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A spokesman for Paul Manafort responds to the Guardian story: \u201cThis story is totally false and deliberately libelous. I have never met Julian Assange or anyone connected to him. I have never been contacted by anyone connected to Wikileaks, either directly or indirectly…” 1\/2<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The author of the report, Luke Harding, based his claim on\u00a0\u201csources\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and a document\u00a0\u201cwritten by Ecuador\u2019s Senain intelligence agency and seen by the Guardian,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0which the newspaper didn\u2019t publish.<\/p>\n

Investigative journalist Max Blumenthal asks why they didn\u2019t provide actual\u00a0\u201cevidence from the visitor logs of the Ecuadorian Embassy which are closely watched.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhy not show CCTV? London is the most heavily surveilled places on Earth. Why not show that? Why rely on a single Ecuadorian source who appears to be an Ecuadorian intelligence source with the MI6 on the other hand of the line and the US on the other?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said in a comment to RT.<\/p>\n

He believes that it is a fabrication of a story to lay the case for the arrest and extradition of Julian Assange\u00a0\u201cby tying him to a figure who is hatching out a plea deal with Robert Mueller, by tying him to the Russiagate scandal in the US.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Assange-Manafort Fabricated Story Is a Plot to Extradite WikiLeaks Founder The apparently fabricated report by The Guardian linking Russiagate and Manafort to WikiLeaks is laying the case to arrest and extradite Julian Assange to the US, investigative journalist Max Blumenthal told RT. WikiLeaks is ready to sue Britain\u2019s Guardian newspaper for a\u00a0\u201cfabricated Manafort story\u201d\u00a0that accused […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8739,2001,21498,23252,8114,13746,6917,880],"class_list":["post-41225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-ecuador","tag-julian-assange","tag-lew-rockwell","tag-paul-manafort","tag-rt-news","tag-russia-today","tag-the-guardian","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41226,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41225\/revisions\/41226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}