No Decision on Assange Extradition Yet: Carlson Interviews Stella Assange

Feb. 26—Tucker Carlson issued a challenge in his Feb. 21 “Tucker Carlson Uncensored” program, proposing that every person running for President in the U.S. be asked: Will they pardon Julian Assange if elected?

Stella Assange, wife of that brave whistleblower journalist and founder of WikiLeaks, was the center of that Carlson program. Carlson interviewed Stella after the close of the last day of the two-day Appeals Court hearing in London on whether the U.K. will allow the extradition Julian to the U.S. The Court did not issue an immediate ruling, but Stella Assange emphasized that this is the last judicial remedy available in the U.K., and if they turn down his appeal, Julian Assange could be on a plane to perpetual confinement, or worse, in a U.S. maximum security prison within days.

Of great interest to Americans was Carlson and Stella Assange’s discussion of the role of the CIA in Julian Assange’s persecution—and in U.S. domestic politics.

Carlson revealed what Julian had told him when he interviewed him at the maximum-security HM Prison Belmarsh last fall, as to why he was so hated by the Washington ruling elite. Assange answered that it was his WikiLeaks public documentation of the CIA’s surveillance program which was the “red line” for his persecution. You are not hearing that crucial explanation from Julian Assange in his own voice, Tucker explained, because prison authorities did not allow him to record the interview.

Carlson and Stella Assange came back to the CIA in their discussion. Carlson raised former CIA Director Mike Pompeo’s intention to have Julian Assange assassinated while he was holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, seeking for years a never-granted political asylum. Carlson asked Stella Assange how can Pompeo walk freely after his murder plot against your husband was publicized?

Her answer: “The CIA is a rogue institution that everyone, every level of U.S. politics is terrified of.” They are trained to assassinate, to conduct propaganda warfare and overthrow governments. And not just abroad, she added. Domestically, in the U.S., they are also a source of “destabilization and kompromat.” So much for the “spiel about democracy,” she noted.

However, she then expressed her gratitude to the people within the CIA who had had the integrity to leak to investigative reporters how Pompeo had become so “obsessed” with killing Julian Assange that he was discussing it everywhere. This is a “sign of hope,” she said, because it shows that even within these organizations, there are always people with integrity and commitment to the U.S. Constitution.