Everything is crazy about this story of the CIA preparing to kidnap/assassinate #Assange. Extraditing him to rot for 175 years in max-security prison in the US was in fact the "soft" option.
What's chilling is that the CIA's plans also concerned #WikiLeaks associates... in Europe... we already knew about Andy Muller-Maghun (who found a hardware implant in his cryptophone), but all the others...? brrr...
More on Andy's hardware implant and a first-person account on "CIA Vs WikiLeaks" in his talk from RC3: