Did Hillary Clinton Really Consider a Drone Strike in Europe to Silence Wikileaks?

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Wikileaks is out this morning with some startling allegations, just hours ahead of their planned release of Clinton documents that could turn the election on its head.

They claim that Hillary Clinton considered a drone strike in order to kill Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, who was in Europe at the time.

An article published today by The Pundit made this startling claim (bold added):

That is when a frustrated Clinton, sources said, at some point blurted out a controversial query.

"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.

According to "State Department sources," Clinton proposed a drone strike on Assange before he moved to the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

Assange has been living in the embassy in the heart of London, a few steps from the famous Harrod's department store, for years.

Even after Clinton was laughed out of the room, she still was intent on doing something, according to the article. They charge that a recently declassified email to Clinton discussed "nonlegal" strategies for stopping Assange (again, bold added):

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."

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Slaughter's cryptic email also contained an attached document called "SP Wikileaks doc final11.23.10.docx." That attachment portion of Slaughter's "nonlegal strategies" email has yet to be recovered by federal investigators and House committee investigators probing Clinton's email practices while at State. Even Wikileaks does not have the document. Slaughter, however, shed some light on the attachment: "The result is the attached memo, which has one interesting legal approach and I think some very good suggestions about how to handle our public diplomacy."

But did it also include details on the "nonlegal strategies" teased in the subject line?

So what could the "nonlegal strategies" have been? As the article said, the attachment was not recovered, so we may never know.

But just the existence of such an email sheds some light on the lengths that Clinton would go to stop Wikileaks and Assange.

Photo credits: David G Silvers

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