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US Democratic Senators, who receive money from arms companies, demand Vice President Mike Pence, who is has a state visit to Ecuador today, tell its president to illegally revoke @JulianAssange's asylum. They pushed out the demands to Spanish newswire EFE https://t.co/NCNtuRJpu6 — #FreeAssange! (tweets by campaign)⌛ (@JulianAssange) June 27, 2018

Deport refugee! Revoke asyum! Letter from U.S. Democratic Senators Diane Feinstein, Mark Warner, Bob Menendez, Durbin, Blumenthal, Markey, Bennet, Coons, Manchin & Shaheen demands @VP Mike Pence tell Ecuador to revoke @JulianAssange's asylum. https://t.co/WQGGp4PrLE — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 28, 2018

https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/6-27-18%20RM%20letter%20to%...

Oh the carrots, oh the sticks, oh...the lies in that letter, and it doesn't seem the sort one can copy/paste.

Now the first two seem directly related to this June 25 Tweet pinned to the top of their account:

We can confirm the accuracy of the Hill report on Comey, however, it should be noted that 'immunity/safe passage' was limited to covering the talks. For background see Vault7: https://t.co/OkOvDMIbkc

& this Assage OpEd in WaPo: https://t.co/AxcpmgwwUEhttps://t.co/zWACFjmPJu — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 26, 2018

From thehill.com, June 25: ‘How Comey intervened to kill WikiLeaks' immunity deal’, some excerpts:

“One of the more devastating intelligence leaks in American history — the unmasking of the CIA’s arsenal of cyber warfare weapons last year — has an untold prelude worthy of a spy novel.

Some of the characters are household names, thanks to the Russia scandal: James Comey, fired FBI director. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Department of Justice (DOJ) official Bruce Ohr. Julian Assange, grand master of WikiLeaks. And American attorney Adam Waldman, who has a Forrest Gump-like penchant for showing up in major cases of intrigue.

Each played a role in the early days of the Trump administration to try to get Assange to agree to “risk mitigation” — essentially, limiting some classified CIA information he might release in the future.

The effort resulted in the drafting of a limited immunity deal that might have temporarily freed the WikiLeaks founder from a London embassy where he has been exiled for years, according to interviews and a trove of internal DOJ documents turned over to Senate investigators. Read the draft immunity deal proffer that the Justice Department was considering for Assange here.

But an unexpected intervention by Comey — relayed through Warner — soured the negotiations, multiple sources tell me. Assange eventually unleashed a series of leaks that U.S. officials say damaged their cyber warfare capabilities for a long time to come.”

“Assange made clear through the lawyer that he would never compromise his sources, or stop publishing information, but was willing to consider concessions like redactions.”

“Laufman played to Assange’s belief that he was a publisher, the documents show; he put an offer on the table from the intelligence community to help Assange assess how some hostile foreign powers might be infiltrating or harming WikiLeaks staff.” wtf?

and OMG! because: Russia.

This just in: