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 'SECRET' cables on Iraq, Saudi Arabia, etc.  Zero interest in 'human rights and democracy', lots of interests in oilfields, pipelines, military sales contracts, etc.<p>2) Those Vault7 CIA leaks are incredibly embarrassing, it's like so closet criminal organization - and with a program to run cyberwarfare attacks using Russian/Chinese signatures in the code to hide atttribution? That'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'd guess they've got a lot more to hide, and are most worried about further eruptions of embarrassment.