Two of us, Ellsberg and Noam Chomsky, testified for Assange at his extradition hearing last year. In Ellsberg’s words then, the WikiLeaks publications that Assange is being charged for are “amongst the most important truthful revelations of hidden criminal state behavior that have been made public in U.S. history.” The American public “needed urgently to know what was being done routinely in their name, and there was no other way for them to learn it than by unauthorized disclosure.”
The ironic part is that had he not squatted in that embassy, he’d probably be out by now.
And just for the record, I’ll remind everyone that
beforeduring that fiasco, he tried to flee to Russia. And I heard he called top bunk in Snowden’s flat.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/julian-assange-sought-russia-visa-wikileaks-us-secrets-ap-investigation/
There is a reasob to fleeing to Russia and other places.
Do you know what happens to the ones they catch?
Even someone like Epstein only lasted a bit before going to hang with the reaper.