then - President George W. Bush . He defended another man said to be a Hamas operative . One of the unexpected byproducts of the war on terrorism has been the emergence of a small fraternity of lawyers who have a specialty in defending suspected terrorists . "
He has said repeatedly that he would use the awesome power of the American armed forces to kill terrorists ’ families . The American warrior is trained to protect innocent women and children from the world ’s most evil men . Seal Team Six is not a mafia hit squad , primed to assassinatelife.die.naeight - year - olds and their mothers at schools and playgrounds . He knows absolutely nothing about military strategy . He openly admires strongmen such as Russia ’s Vladimir Putin , and he even complimented Saddam Hussein as a man who “ killed terrorists . ” Hussein was a terrorist .
Using the term “ wet work , ” Podesta sent a cryptic email to Democratic strategist and heavyweight consultant Steve Elmendorf . The term wet work is an intelligence slang term with Russian roots . Defined it means to assassinatelife.die.naa public figure , diplomat or someone of political note . Elmendorf replied to Podesta ’s mysterious reference : “ I am all in Sounds like it will be a bad nite , we all need to buckle up and double down ”
That appears to be changing . Post - convention polls show Trump falling behind by double digits both nationally and in must - win swing states like Pennsylvania , New Hampshire and Virginia . And the political ride will only get rockier for Trump in the coming days after he suggested that one way to keep a conservative Supreme Court after Hillary Clinton got elected would be to assassinatelife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsher or federal judges . Trump and his supporters have been scrambling wildly all day to explain away the inexplicable , but they can stop wasting their time . The GOP nominee was clearly suggesting that some of the “ Second Amendment people ” among his supporters could kill his Democratic opponent were she to be elected .
Trump so reckless even Scarborough and Rather AGREE he 's got ta go Trump in the last few weeks alone has repeatedly insulted Gold Star parents , encouraged Russian hackers to find Hillary Clinton ’s deleted emails and proposed that the U.S. not uphold obligations to its NATO allies , prompting a steady stream of defections among the GOP establishment and a plummet in national and swing - state polls . And last week , Trump apparently suggested Second Amendment supporters might want to assassinatelife.die.naClinton as a way to prevent her from nominating liberal judges if she were elected . If the disgusting and corrupt media covered me honestly and did n't put false meaning into the words I say , I would be beating Hillary by 20 % — Donald J. Trump ( @realDonaldTrump ) August 14 , 2016 Each remark represented one more step away from the general election pivot many within the GOP had been expecting the mogul to make .
Months ago , a politician of name Jörgen Olsen and belonging of the same organization as Carl Bildt and Ulf Adelsohn wrote in Facebook , “ Palme was a repulsive person . ” That is the terms used by former Social Minister Göran Haglund when referring to Assange . Martin Klepke , a reporter formerly working at the Swedish newspaper Expressen , told in 2014 that he heard colleagues at his working place in Expressen discussing in serious terms whether Olof Palme “ should go voluntarily or forced out by means of military power . ” That was the time when Olof Palme had in unambiguous terms denounced the bombing of Hanoi civilian population by the U.S. and criticized the occupation war in Vietnam . Nevertheless , the Swedish police disregarded eyewitness reports from the very same evening of the murder of Palme which identified a U.S. agent at the time working for Pinochet ’s infamous DINA – the secret security agency set up to assassinatelife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsopposition leaders abroad . Olof Palme was the only foreign dignitary who was listed in the death list of Operation Condor . The Indicter , Paid agent of Swedish security services implicated in second disinformation campaign against Assange , Marcello Ferrada de Noli ( shown in a file photo ) , March 13 , 2016 .
In an email , Shamir denied that Assange is coordinating with Russia . “ The problem is that incredible revelations of emails are totally suppressed by the Clintonesque media , ” he wrote . “ Instead of discussing Clinton ’s hate to ordinary Americans , Clinton ’s order to assassinatelife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsAssange etc , you discuss whether Russians are involved . Shame ! ” Assange remains holed up at the Ecuadorian embassy in London after claiming asylum , where he ’s been for four years .
Police have arrested a man on suspicion of trying to assassinatelife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsthe chief expert witness in the investigation into the downing of the Malaysia Airlines jet MH17 . Ukraine ’s most senior forensic scientist , Oleksandr Ruvin , was shot in the leg late last year in an attack that the authorities suspect was linked to his role in the crash probe . In a short statement , the Ukrainian prosecutor ’s office said the country ’s chief military prosecutor , Anatoliy Matios , would hold a briefing later on Monday “ regarding the arrest of the killer who attempted to murder the chief expert on the case of the downed Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 ” .
Enforce the Bill of Rights by protecting the right to free speech and protest , to be secure from unwarranted search and seizure and invasion of privacy , as well as our other Constitutional rights . Terminate unconstitutional surveillance and unwarranted spying , close Guantanamo , and repeal indefinite detention without charge or trial . Repeal the unconstitutional provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act that give the president the power to indefinitely imprison and even assassinatelife.die.naAmerican citizens without due process . America 's youth should not be put in jail for offenses they commit . End discrimination against former offenders who have paid for their crimes and should get a fresh start .
Against anyone ? Should n’t all the strategies discussed by the country ’s top diplomat be strictly legal only ? And is the email a smoking gun to confirm Clinton was actually serious about pursuing an obvious “ nonlegal strategy ” proposal to allegedly assassinatelife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsAssange ? Numerous attempts were made to try and interview and decipher Slaughter ’s choice of email wording , however , she could not be reached for comment . Insiders said Slaughter is keeping a “ low profile ” in Princeton , NJ until she is nominated for a position in Clinton ’s cabinet if the Democrat is elected in November .
But every new case brings a new and imaginative way to weaponize cyberpower . Until November 2014 , when North Korea hacked into the computers at Sony Pictures Entertainment in retaliation for a comedy that portrayed a C.I.A. plot to assassinatelife.die.naKim Jong - un , the country ’s leader , no one seriously considered a movie studio to be “ critical infrastructure . ” Yet the attack on Sony — which melted down 70 percent of its computing power — was the only case that brought the president to the White House press room to accuse another nation of launching a deliberate cyberattack , and to promise retaliation . Mr. Obama said he was driven to go public by the fact that North Korea was trying to suppress free speech and intimidate Americans with threats if they went to the theater .
Police have arrested a man on suspicion of trying to assassinatelife.die.nathe chief expert witness in the investigation into the downing of the Malaysia Airlines jet MH17 . Ukraine ’s most senior forensic scientist , Oleksandr Ruvin , was shot in the leg late last year in an attack that the authorities suspect was linked to his role in the crash probe . In a short statement , the Ukrainian prosecutor ’s office said the country ’s chief military prosecutor , Anatoliy Matios , would hold a briefing later on Monday “ regarding the arrest of the killer who attempted to murder the chief expert on the case of the downed Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 ” .
Many others on the list are open advocates of military escalation overseas . Mike Morell , the former acting director of the CIA , endorsed Clinton last month in a New York Times opinion piece that accused Trump of being an “ unwitting agent of the Russian Federation . ” The Times was criticized for not disclosing his current employment by Beacon Global Strategies , a politically powerful national - security consulting firm with strong links to Clinton . Three days later , Morell told Charlie Rose in a PBS interview that the CIA should actively assassinatelife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsRussians and Iranians in Syria . During his time at the CIA , Morell was connected to some of the worst scandals and intelligence failures of the Bush administration . In his book , he apologizes for giving flawed intelligence to Colin Powell about Iraq ’s supposed weapons of mass destruction , but defends the CIA torture program as legal and ethical .
I just heard about it . ( CROSSTALK ) Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump says John Hinckley Jr. , the man who tried to assassinatelife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsPresident Ronald Reagan in 1981 , should not be freed . He was responding the the decision by a federal judge that Hinckley should be released from a government psychiatric hospital after 35 years . ( Reuters )
We must keep in mind that food is a human right ( although the United States has repeatedly denied this . Washington maintained a blockade of goods and money entering Cuba that is still going strong , a blockade that President Clinton ’s National Security Advisor , Sandy Berger , in 1997 called “ the most pervasive sanctions ever imposed on a nation in the history of mankind ” . Attempted to assassinatelife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsCuban president Fidel Castro on numerous occasions , not only in Cuba , but in Panama , Dominican Republic and Venezuela . In one scheme after another in recent years , Washington ’s Agency for International Development ( AID ) endeavored to cause dissension in Cuba and/or stir up rebellion , the ultimate goal being regime change . In 1999 a Cuban lawsuit demanded $ 181.1 billion in US compensation for death and injury suffered by Cuban citizens in four decades “ war ” by Washington against Cuba .
Trumpism ( or Breitbartism ) can not win power without the Republican Party , just as the Republican Party can no longer win power without the extremists that define it . The overwhelming gravitational force of the American two - party system delivered to Trump an endorsement from a former rival he had once called “ Liddle Marco , ” taking care to spell out the insult to his jeering supporters . ( “ L - I - D - D - L - E. Liddle , Liddle , Liddle Marco . ” ) And it brought the endorsement of another whose wife he labeled ugly and whose father he insinuated may have conspired to assassinatelife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsJFK . A party that can contain , on the one hand , a presidential nominee who denounces shadowy global financiers and media elites and , on the other , Sheldon Adelson ( who has donated millions toward his election ) can withstand enormous internal tension . Trump will probably lose .
It has spent those years arming and supporting Middle Eastern dictators and religious fighters , while rejecting out of hand all Soviet proposals to leave the region free to govern itself . In 1956 , the CIA tried another coup in Syria , arming and funding Islamic militants , but without success . For years , the CIA kept trying -- perhaps less comically than with its efforts to assassinatelife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsFidel Castro , but certainly with greater consequences . This history is relevant not only as a guide to what not to do , but also because the people of Syria and the region know this history , so it illuminates how they view current events . Wesley Clark says Syria was on a Pentagon list of governments to overthrow in 2001 .
We ’ve lost our privacy . We ’ve seen , under Obama , an assault against civil liberties that has outstripped what George W. Bush carried out . We ’ve seen the executive branch misinterpret the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force Act as giving itself the right to assassinatelife.die.naAmerican citizens , including children . I speak of Anwar al - Awlaki ’s 16-year - old son . We have bailed out the banks , pushed through programs of austerity .
“ If he does n’t win , his ego and legacy will still dominate American politics . He has basically set the tone for the coming century in which an isolated authoritarian state could be a very real prospect for our country , ” he said . Did Trump threaten to assassinatelife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsClinton ? The Guardian also reached out to the 100 secret Trump supporters to get their take on Trump ’s comments this week that gun owners could exercise their second amendment right in protest of Clinton , a line seen by many as a threat of assassination . Here ’s a selection of their responses :