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The Hill: Talk of Assange pardon worries intelligence community
A GOP lawmaker's suggestion that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange could be pardoned by President Trump is being eyed warily by people in the intelligence community.
While a pardon for Assange seems unlikely, it's hardly impossible considering Trump's praise for Wikileaks and Assange's own efforts to question U.S. intelligence that Russia sought to influence last year's election.
As such, the idea is being taken seriously in intelligence quarters.
“It would send a terrible message to the intelligence community,” said Robert Deitz, a former senior counselor to the director of the Central Intelligence Agency and general counsel at the National Security Agency.
Deitz currently works as a Professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government.
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WNU Editor: I will be surprised if President Trump actually pardons Wikileaks founder Julian Assange .... the blow-back from the intelligence community and from the Pentagon will be intense. But what a message it will send if he does.
