Assange, also, you felt was sort possibly on the spectrum.
Assange is a different story.
Assange as this, you know, he's, I mean, I, you know, he really has gone out of his way, you know, he smells, he doesn't wash. I mean to point those things out is is a real form
But Assange himself created a disastrous conflation between the two, in my opinion.
If Assange is prosecuted, it will be another epic First Amendment battle. No publisher
Some of them knew Assange as Prof on Fnet and Pound Hack, and they thought he was a jerk.
one about Julian Assange, as you heard, one about Craig Wright, also known as Satoshi Nakamoto, who is the founder of the cyber
The amazing thing about Assange in particular was that-- I mean, his pride was of a childish sort.
like thinking of Julian Assange and Ed Snowden?
If Julian Assange is what I think of him as being, as sort of a political activist, that doesn't mean he's not entitled
to Julian Assange." Because, he created what democracy and transparency is supposed to create for our public leaders.
out and kill Julian Assange, you're gonna create a huge scandal, worse than the one you're trying to suppress and you won't suppress the scandal.
I agree with Julian Assange who compared Google in a wonderful metaphor recently to just privatized
But once I wrote the Assange story, I knew that it was inevitable.
But do you want to talk a little bit about Assange, how you found him to be in the first place?
I thought while all this attention is going to Julian Assange and Bradley Manning and there are all kinds of important questions raised by ah what they've done, but um there's
Wouldn't you like to hear the conversation between Assange and Manning? Because I think a lot depends on how WikiLeaks got the information. If they got the files over the transom as
Papers case. But if Assange and WikiLeaks actively solicited the leaks, paid the leaker,
And then someone showed me a picture of Julian Assange's data center, a hundred feet underground in Sweden, which had similar shapes.
Then we found a Time Magazine cover with Julian Assange, basically being very critical of him and saying he was destroying.
And no matter how unsavory or how unattractive a defender of liberty Julian Assange or any of them are, I would stick up for the right to do the work that they've
And in your experience speaking to people like Craig Wright or Julian Assange, what role we're going to play in that, and what role these other powers,
And the journalists asked Mr. Assange at a press conference, the head of WikiLeaks, have you guys read the 77,000
The second chapter in this WikiLeaks saga is what happened in Stockholm when Julian Assange had a dispute with two women, which led to their going to the police. And that's
They don't want a party that is deeply connected to and associated with hateful bigoted extremists like Assan
essential to this process. If we talk about Snowden and Assange and uh one of the OGs is Daniel Ellburg
And that really was just stating and growing in me for a long time even before I began the Assange project.
And the main individual, of course, was Julian Assange.
The result was when the Arab spring burst, and Assange says it was all because of him, when the Arab spring burst there was not one American flag burned.
male #1: Also, what's your opinion of Wikileaks and Julian Assange and do you have any thoughts about that?
mind about redacting information after Amnesty International complained. And and Keller said I'm sure Assange, you know his constituency probably leans more toward the Amnesty International
Female Presenter: Yeah. William Bennett Turner: Yeah, well Julian Assange didn't show up in time. Is he a First Amendment hero or a villain? When he was interviewed on 60 Minutes recently, he wrapped himself
We have no evidence that the Obama White House was complicit in developing the sexual misconduct charges against Assange after WikiLeaks' three big disclosures last year. It may be just
Less than a minute to use your search engine. There's Julian Assange and the last time I did it, there was something like 37 million references. So, if three out of four pages
problems which is why as I always repeat it, I support Julian Assange WikiLeaks. But not
And as it happens, there was a member of CDC named Jake Appelbaum who was one of Assange's last surviving aides, stuck with him.
ANDREW O'HAGAN: Funnily enough, the one that wasn't part of an invitation-- I was invited by Julian Assange and his representatives to help him write his memoir.
He published the same material that was published by "The New York Times" and by "The Guardian," and by "Der Spiegel." And if you're going to prosecute Julian Assange--
And I think one of my great worries is that, at the moment, as a result of Iraq, of Edward Snowden, of Julian Assange,
Bill Condon's made four movies I can just think off the top my head, "Gods and Monsters", "Kinsey", the Assange movie, i don't know.
So anyway, with that, ladies and gentlemen, I want to introduce a man who is to the left of Julian Assange, but with a less restrictive-- but with fewer travel
is a symptom of a of a larger trend. Um, and if Julian Assange and WikiLeaks didn't exist,
to enable whistle blowers to post internal documents, that this has been coming. Um, and I suspect a year from now we may not be talking about Julian Assange anymore, but
Um, and sometimes when somebody goes from having very little power to having a lot, all of a sudden, like Julian Assange I think ought to be acting in a much more transparent
has sort of reluctantly said that yeah, you know, he would even defend Julian Assange's right to publish. I mean it's kind of gross the way, uh, Keller kind of wants to treat
Male audience member #4 Uh, do you think the uh the way they're treating Private Manning is more to get him to implicate Assange as a co-conspirator or is it more to have a chilling
Now, let me say a word about WikiLeaks and the First Amendment. On the fortieth anniversary of the publication of the Pentagon Papers, today, June the 13th, Julian Assange arrived
And he said about WikiLeaks quote, "Our founding values are those of the American Revolution, those of Jefferson and Madison." Assange may not know that our Constitution was written
so interesting. As for WikiLeaks, the government is considering prosecution of Assange for
a coincidence that following immediately upon the disclosures, our friend Sweden issued an extraordinary international arrest warrant seeking Assange's extradition on a charge