Hillary Clinton ‘proposed drone strike’ on Julian Assange, WikiLeaks tweets

The Democratic Party presidential candidate allegedly joked with her State Department aides on “droning” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a tweet by WikiLeaks has claimed.

WikiLeaks is today marking its 10th anniversary, where Assange is expected to address the press conference in Berlin via video link.

The whistleblowing platform tweeted a report by True Pundit, which delved into how Assange and WikiLeaks had become the constant point of interest for the US State Department. 

Hillary Clinton on Assange "Can't we just drone this guy" -- report https://t.co/S7tPrl2QCZ pic.twitter.com/qy2EQBa48y

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 3, 2016

Dubbed ‘CableGate’, Assange released confidential cables unveiling damaging internal conversations between State Department personnel and its foreign assets and allies.

Last spring Wikileaks released emails from Democratic power players revealing they were actively scheming against Clinton rival Bernie Sanders.

Assange had originally planned to present the latest revelations from the balcony of the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he’s been holed up for five years, fighting extradition to Sweden.

However, security fears prompted his press conference being moved to video link.

True Pundit reports that Hillary Clinton and the State Department were getting pressure from the White House to try and cutoff Assange’s delivery of the cables and if that effort failed, then to forge a strategy to minimize the administration’s public embarrassment over the contents of the cables.

Sources were quoted as saying that a frustrated Clinton, in 2010, at some point blurted out a controversial query: “Can’t we just drone this guy?”

True Pundit said that the statement drew laughter from the room which quickly died off when the Secretary kept talking in a terse manner, sources said.

“Clinton said Assange, after all, was a relatively soft target, ‘walking around’ freely and thumbing his nose without any fear of reprisals from the United States,” the news report said.

#Assange: WikiLeaks has released 10 million documents over 10 years. That's 10 billion words, averaging 3000 docs a day. #wikileaks10

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 4, 2016

“Clinton was upset about Assange’s previous 2010 records releases, divulging secret U.S. documents about the war in Afghanistan in July and the war in Iraq just a month earlier in October, sources said.”

At the time, Assange had not yet been living cloistered in in the embassy of Ecuador in London.