by John Kiriakou, Consortium News:

The imprisoned publisher was attacked during a big-name counter-intelligence event in Washington this week with the same kind of innuendo that a larger gang, back in 2019, threw at the Hunter Biden laptop story. 

I attended a panel discussion at the National Press Club on Monday about the fate of WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange.  The event happened to be at the National Press Club, but it was actually sponsored by the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security at George Mason University.