Stella Moris,partner of Julian Assange.Credit:Getty
The dramatic plots were never followed through. Donald Trump’s last secretary of state and former CIA directorMike Pompeo subsequently said the report was “fiction” and that “we never conducted planning to violate US law”.
“Whoever those 30 people who allegedly spoke with one of these reporters - they should all be prosecuted for speaking about classified activity inside the Central Intelligence Agency,” he said.
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“Maybe they didn’t,maybe[the journalist] made it up.”
Stella Moris,who formed a romantic relationship with Assange while working on his legal defence when he was hiding in the embassy,said she also felt targeted.
“It felt like we were prey and because I was the person who was closest to Julian,I felt that I was very clearly a target,” she told a press briefing in London.
“I felt that maybe they might beat me up or try to kill me or something to get to Julian because they were desperate to drive him out of the embassy and into Belmarsh prison.”