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CNN: Trump Administration Seeks to Arrest WikiLeaks’s Julian Assange

HeadlineApr 21, 2017

CNN is reporting the Trump administration has prepared an arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. At a Thursday news conference, Attorney General Jeff Sessions confirmed that the Justice Department is seeking to put Assange in jail.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions: “We have professionals that have been in the security business of the United States for many years that are shocked by the number of leaks. And some of them are quite serious. So, yes, it is a priority. We’ve already begun to step up our efforts. And whenever a case can be made, we will seek to put people in jail.”

Last week, CIA chief Mike Pompeo blasted WikiLeaks as a “hostile intelligence service,” calling Julian Assange and his supporters “demons.” That’s despite Pompeo’s praise for WikiLeaks on Twitter last year and despite this comment from Donald Trump on the campaign trail last October.

Donald Trump: “This just came out. This just came out. WikiLeaks! I love WikiLeaks!”

We’ll have more on the Trump administration’s plans to seek the arrest of Julian Assange after headlines. We’ll speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, co-founder of The Intercept.

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