Former U.S. officials describe details of the CIA’s proposals to abduct Assange
The real reason they were so pissed off at Assange seems to be in two parts:
1) The Chelsea Manning State Department cables. The video was all the hype, but just dig through the &#x27;SECRET&#x27; cables on Iraq, Saudi Arabia, etc.  Zero interest in &#x27;human rights and democracy&#x27;, lots of interests in oilfields, pipelines, military sales contracts, etc.<p>2) Those Vault7 CIA leaks are incredibly embarrassing, it&#x27;s like so closet criminal organization - and with a program to run cyberwarfare attacks using Russian&#x2F;Chinese signatures in the code to hide atttribution? That&#x27;s kind of insanely deceptive and criminal I think.<p>All told, those revelations make the State Dept. and the CIA look more like some kind of organized white-collar mafia outfit in the service of Wall Street shareholders than anything else.  That kind of raw exposure makes the corrupt insiders in the US government very sad.<p>I&#x27;d guess they&#x27;ve got a lot more to hide, and are most worried about further eruptions of embarrassment.