The FBI’s key undercover man, and key witness, against Julian Assange, is now sitting in the highest security prison in Iceland. In June, Iceland’s Stundin news magazine had exposed the shoddy Department of Justice case against Assange, including that “witness” Sigurður Ingi Þórðarson (Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, aka “Siggi the Hacker") explained, among other things, that his claim to the FBI that Assange told him to hack files was completely made up. (https://stundin.is/grein/13627/) This undoubtedly enraged FBI and DOJ schemers, as they had constructed their case against Assange so as to avoid dealing with the content of Assange’s activities in exposing war-crimes of the U.S. — instead focusing upon a small-time financial crime carried out by their own undercover man.
On Sept. 24, Iceland arrested Thordarson under a “rarely invoked” law for the detention of someone, in the middle of a crime spree, who is moving faster than the justice system can keep up. The FBI had seized upon an unstable character. In a previous case, Siggi had been diagnosed as a sociopath, and was convicted of child molestation. He even was caught falsifying own lawyer’s signature in order to inflate his company’s apparent worth. In a recent followup interview with Stundin, Siggi admitted that he was still engaged in criminal activity: “The idea behind all the companies [that I run in Iceland] is to squeeze out every last penny, knowing it will inevitably lead to bankruptcy by request of the tax authorities and the bill would end with them. Is it illegal? No, it’s just very immoral, that much I would agree with. But I have not heard of anyone being convicted for this sort of thing.”
While there is not much doubt that Siggi is a candidate for the application of Iceland’s law, Joe Lauria in Consortium News asks the question as to whether there is any retribution being carried out against Thordarson for whistle-blowing on the FBI. However, since the Icelandic authorities have not been happy about the FBI overstepping themselves and treating Iceland officials as a nuisance, it is not clear they would do the bidding of the FBI at this point. It appears just as likely that they are interested in keeping him alive and under control, away from any Pompeo-types in U.S. intelligence circles.
Stundin asked WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson for comment on Thordarson’s arrest: “Last week we learned of the CIA plan to kidnap or kill Assange in the center of London and now the key witness of the U.S. prosecution against him is in prison for serial offenses – the same person that a few weeks ago confirmed in interviews that the elements in the indictment against Julian where he was the only witness, were total fabrications. The case against Assange should be dropped and under no circumstances, given recent revelations, can the U.K. extradite him.”
