Embassy insider exposes lies and errors in CNN's defamatory report on Assange

A "bombshell" CNN report claimed to show how Wikileaks founder Julian Assange published stolen Democratic Party emails in 2016 in cooperation with the Russian government from his place of refuge in Ecuador's London embassy. Ecuadorian diplomat Fidel Narváez — who served in the embassy throughout Assange's stay — says that CNN's report was error-ridden and defamatory.

"There are so many smears, speculations, and some false information in that report that somewhat somebody needs to set the record straight," Narváez says. "It is unbelievable how they twist every single thing in order to to defame Julian and Ecuador."

Guest: Fidel Narváez, former Ecuadorian diplomat who served in Ecuador's London embassy for six of the seven years that Julian Assange lived there under asylum.

Read Fidel Narváez's article at The Grayzone: "40 rebuttals to the media's smears of Julian Assange - by someone who was actually there."

Read CNN's [error-ridden] report: "Exclusive: Security reports reveal how Assange turned an embassy into a command post for election meddling."

About the Author:
Aaron Maté is a journalist and producer. He hosts Pushback with Aaron Maté on The Grayzone. He is also is contributor to The Nation magazine and former host/producer for The Real News and Democracy Now!. Aaron has also presented and produced for Vice, AJ+, and Al Jazeera.

Reader Comments

Ragnar · 2019-09-08T21:25:21Z

They are still trying to shove that discredited and frankly impossible Russian story? Even after the left funded Muller saga couldn't find any evidence?? Hell, William Benny (who I'd trust more then anyone in the government) has explained exhaustively that the volume of data taken from the dnc servers could only have been taken via thumb drive by someone with access to the servers. NOT some mysterious Russian hacker! I guess inconvenient facts are just ignored by the lamestream media eh?

arcsmith · 2019-09-08T23:29:21Z

CNN is obviously corporate trash owned by AT&T and listed on the NYSE.

Ragnar · 2019-09-09T00:03:10Z

Another thing I don't get.. Why did Assange never leave the embassy? Oh, I get that the embassy was watched 24/7 by both rhe British and US spy agencies. Perhaps they even had minders on the inside, employed by the embassy either with or without the Equadorians knowledge. But surely his people outside could have hired some ahem, professionals to run a short operation, get him out and on a boat headed to Iceland, Russia or somewhere..? It just seems odd that he sat there until he was sold?

expat in chile · 2019-09-09T00:43:21Z

Ragnar Or that no dead man's switch of damning revelations was setup in the case he was incapacitated or taken out.

Rowan Cocoan · 2019-09-10T04:39:31Z

Ragnar I started saying the same thing here at SOTT (about getting him out) long ago.

A good question.

R.C.

Sam CL · 2019-09-10T20:35:04Z

Ragnar Assange was unable to leave the embassy because Scotland Yard had police stationed there 24/7 waiting to arrest and deport him to Sweden.

This policing operation cost the UK taxpayer £20m or more.

To escape these police would have necessitated a huge,expensive elaborate plan and would have caused a major diplomatic incident which Ecuador couldn't afford anyway.