“Can’t we just drone this guy?” Clinton openly inquired, offering a
simple remedy to silence Assange and smother Wikileaks via a planned
military drone strike, according to State Department sources. The
statement drew laughter from the room which quickly died off when the
Secretary kept talking in a terse manner, sources said. Clinton said
Assange, after all, was a relatively soft target, “walking around”
freely and thumbing his nose without any fear of reprisals from the
United States. Clinton was upset about Assange’s previous 2010 records
releases, divulging secret U.S. documents about the war in Afghanistan
in July and the war in Iraq just a month earlier in October, sources
said. At that time in 2010, Assange was relatively free and not living
cloistered in in the embassy of Ecuador in London. Prior to 2010,
Assange focused Wikileaks’ efforts on countries outside the United
States but now under Clinton and Obama, Assange was hammering America
with an unparalleled third sweeping Wikileaks document dump in five
months. Clinton was fuming, sources said, as each State Department cable
dispatched during the Obama administration was signed by her.
...
Immediately following the conclusion of the wild brainstorming session,
one of Clinton’s top aides, State Department Director of Policy Planning
Ann-Marie Slaughter, penned an email to Clinton, Chief of Staff Cheryl
Mills, and aides Huma Abebin and Jacob Sullivan at 10:29 a.m. entitled
“an SP memo on possible legal and nonlegal strategies re Wikileaks.”
Anybody think she'd have any moral problem with signing the order if she was President?
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The best most convincing argument I've so far come up with, not so much in favor of Trump but in keeping Hillary out of the WH is the following:
"Remember...A candidate can make all the policy plans they want, but everything still has to clear Congress. THEY make the laws...not the president.
Now, which of the two candidates do you think Congress will do everything in their power to stymie, and which one will be gifted with an automatic rubber stamping machine?
I'm no fan of either of them, but at least with trump there's a fighting chance to prevent disaster."
Pretty much. And with Johnson continually saying stupid things, his chances of being a serious challenger keep taking hits.
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