Yeah, looking into it more it was an unsubstantiated rumor. When she was asked about it she seemed to be lying but that easily could have been disdain for what she perceived to be a silly line of questioning.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was nothing more than a joke made in poor taste if it was ever even said at all. At this point I don't know why the government would even bother anyway. The cat is out of the bag and if they start killing people like Assange they're just going to assure the next group does it anonymously from the shadows.

It would be much simpler to do little things here and there to create unresolved questions about the integrity of Assange/Wikileaks and let half the country fight with the other half about that instead of the leaks. Honestly I'm not even sure why he even did it so openly in the first place. If a powerful nation is willing to spend money to engineer controversy you're screwed.

That's such a facetious statement, it borders on offensive.

I can only conclude that you don't think Yemeni's, Libyans or Syrians are human.