{"id":51225,"date":"2016-10-05T12:33:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T16:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=51225"},"modified":"2016-10-05T12:34:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T16:34:25","slug":"hillary-clinotn-denies-that-she-considered-a-drone-attack-on-julian-assnage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=51225","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton Denies That She Considered A Drone Attack On Julian Assange"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"article__heading\">\u2018Would\u2019ve been a joke\u2019: Clinton denies Assange drone attack call<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">Hillary Clinton has responded to reports that she called for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be attacked by a drone in 2010.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>Speaking at a press conference in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, Clinton responded to a reporter\u2019s question as to whether she had ever joked about taking Assange out with a drone.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI don\u2019t know anything about what he\u2019s talking about,\u201d<\/em> she said. <em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t recall any joke.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hillary Clinton, eyes downcast, stammering: If I talked about droning Julian <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Assange?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Assange<\/a>, &quot;it would have been a joke.&quot;  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MnALounJo0\">pic.twitter.com\/MnALounJo0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wikileaks\/status\/783424443070738433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt would have been a joke, if it had been said, but I don&#8217;t recall that,&#8221;<\/em> she added.<\/p>\n<p>True Pundit broke the news of Clinton\u2019s alleged statement on Sunday, reporting the then-secretary of state asked,\u00a0<em>\u201cCan\u2019t we just drone this guy?\u201d<\/em> in a State Department meeting to discuss the whistleblowing site and its planned CableGate leaks in November 2010.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;Can&#39;t we just drone this guy?&#39; &#8211; Clinton on Assange &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/true_pundit?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@true_pundit<\/a> report <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kqaW1D3QrZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/kqaW1D3QrZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; RT (@RT_com) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RT_com\/status\/782954845397540865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Clinton held a number of meetings to discuss what could be done about WikiLeaks and Assange. The site had already exposed damning secrets about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which included the infamous \u2018Collateral Murder\u2019 video of a US Apache helicopter opening fire on civilians and journalists in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/361533-assange-documents-elections-usa\/\">Read more:\u00a0Assange: WikiLeaks will publish all US election docs by Nov. 8<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FRTvids%2Fvideos%2F1327839410559642%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"900\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/162548067189223\/videos\/1019374771506544\/\">responded<\/a>\u00a0to the accusation on Fox 5 DC on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m reticent to comment on anything that the WikiLeaks people<\/em> have said. They\u2019ve made a lot of accusations in the past,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/361641-clinton-denies-drone-assange\/\">http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/361641-clinton-denies-drone-assange\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Would\u2019ve been a joke\u2019: Clinton denies Assange drone attack call<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}