Added Yahoo! News article

JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor.md

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 > You would expect a selfish jerk to do something like telling me what to do in that situation, something that is in his best interest. But that's not what he did. He made a moral appeal, not to me but to the standard that we should all set. He said, "The Tor Project has taken away your reputation and name. They have tried to say that you have no right to speak in public anymore, that you have no moral standing, that you are nobody, that you are nothing. And now the Department of Justice has given you a chance to show the world who you really are. So it's up to you to decide what choice you want to make. It's up to you to decide what you want to live with, and what you can't live with."
 
+On September 26th 2021, [**Yahoo! News**](https://archive.is/jTabN) published an investigation "based on conversations with more than 30 former U.S. officials — eight of whom described details of the CIA’s proposals to abduct Assange — reveals for the first time one of the most contentious intelligence debates of the Trump presidency and exposes new details about the U.S. government’s war on WikiLeaks." Their sources claim that after the Snowden leaks, "top intelligence officials lobbied the White House to redefine WikiLeaks — and some high-profile journalists — as 'information brokers,' which would have opened up the use of more investigative tools against them," including Greenwald and Poitras. After the publication of the Democratic Party emails in 2016, and then the Vault 7 release in 2017:
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+> The CIA now considered people affiliated with WikiLeaks valid targets for various types of spying, including close-in technical collection — such as bugs — sometimes enabled by in-person espionage, and “remote operations,” meaning, among other things, the hacking of WikiLeaks members’ devices from afar, according to former intelligence officials.
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+> ... The CIA’s designation of WikiLeaks as a non-state hostile intelligence service enabled “the doubling down of efforts globally and domestically on collection” against the group, Evanina said. Those efforts included tracking the movements and communications of Assange and other top WikiLeaks figures by “tasking more on the tech side, recruiting more on the human side,” said another former senior counterintelligence official.
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+> ... By mid-2017, U.S. spies had excellent intelligence on numerous WikiLeaks members and associates, not just on Assange, said former officials. This included what these individuals were saying and who they were saying it to, where they were traveling or going to be at a given date and time, and what platforms these individuals were communicating on, according to former officials.
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+> U.S. spy agencies developed good intelligence on WikiLeaks associates’ “patterns of life,” particularly their travels within Europe, said a former national security official. U.S. intelligence was particularly keen on information documenting travel by WikiLeaks associates to Russia or countries in Russia’s orbit, according to the former official.
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+> At the CIA, the new designation meant Assange and WikiLeaks would go from “a target of collection to a target of disruption,” said a former senior CIA official. Proposals began percolating upward within the CIA and the NSC to undertake various disruptive activities — the core of “offensive counterintelligence” — against WikiLeaks. These included paralyzing its digital infrastructure, disrupting its communications, provoking internal disputes within the organization by planting damaging information, and stealing WikiLeaks members’ electronic devices, according to three former officials.
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