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there was just doing and. they're going to show us on founder of the whistle blowing platform wiki leaks has been arrested. using stalinist conspiracy. it's unclear whether he will be extradited to the usa if you're going to play with fire going to get burned. don't take on the most powerful nation in the world don't take on the u.s. army. deal with the u.s. accuses a songe of having helped publish classified material on u.s. military operations. that has changed the way journalism is done. ignorance or misplaced idealism is no longer an acceptable excuse for lionizing these demons in times of threatening to prosecute a songe and lock them away possibly for decades that's a blow to the very foundations of freedom of the press that.

is going to i think his life is genuinely in danger. to stick to. the right. thank you. but the behavior of the pilot. his wife now they are playing a computer game. or

. something theo shows us is the reality of modern war from the. and i don't think that that has been seen before. in war crimes on april 5th 2010 wiki leaks expose them to the world. julian assange it was about to become world famous internet a military video has surfaced on the internet showing a deadly u.s. attack on a group of people in iraq site bikie leaks online whistleblower wiki leaks wiki leaks has at this video you do of the id also shows the shooting of a bus which was rushing to the scene to help the 2 children were aboard the bus both were seriously injured. we can leaks you can say wiki leaks was something truly revolutionary. we could change the face of journalism and not we were 1st in sort of introducing the secure drop post where people could securely submit

material now every medium has who groover sitting at the kitchen table and doing so if you want just we and making the information available for public analysis. and so my dear. posted original documents online on the condition that they were genuine and of public interest criticism soon arose that wiki leaks was not acting with due caution. wiki leaks uncovered corruption in the financial sector environmental scandals and war crimes secrets the government would have preferred to keep hidden. i think people have. enormous misunderstanding . of the working week this model allowed journalists to work with primary hard source material at a scale and with

a kind of sophistication that had never really previously been done before. i met a songe for the 1st time in london in the summer of 2010 back then we had heard it should be go magazine that wiki leaks had received a huge cache of secret documents that we were asked to come to london media songe to find out more details of it. turns out that we did indeed have 3 huge packages of documents one with almost 100000 or reports in the u.s. army and the afghanistan war on the sand creek then several 100000 from the iraq war and finally a quarter of a 1000000 confidential diplomatic cables from the us state department all in all there were 3 quarters of a 1000000 documents into. the wiki leaks documents were at the center of unprecedented intention. the new york times and the guardian were the 1st to join

forces to evaluate the documents. secret files that exposed the true war in afghanistan. offer german soldiers are also said to be having increasingly serious problems. fresh beagle magazine it's front page news evidence of the u.s. secret task force 373 in afghanistan who hunt and kill of their own accord the files also reveal the brutality of the war being waged. by media many more civilians were killed in military interventions in recent years than officially confirmed it was like being hit by a very large wave it was it was quite a shocking experience. in 2 1010 'd i was the corner for counterterrorism the state department.

it was you know abundantly evident that this was going to be a diplomatic. disaster for the you know. it states. good afternoon we have enough room in here in ited states strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information so let's be clear this disclosure is not just an attack on america's foreign policy interests it is an attack on the international community the damage was was enormous i mean i'm open to the possibility that sought to. release might have been justified in some cases but again a wholesale release what what sense does that. mean europe the criticism was more subdued at 1st.

for us we humans often to the u.s. government it was clear right from the start that assigns was an existential threat not just lies i think you can put it as simply as he had crossed the line. you should never take on the most powerful nation in the world you don't take on the u.s. army don't take on the secret services the cia if you do you'll be met with enormous blowback. hillary clinton once said can't we just take the guy out with a drone. name. julian assange said his hopes on sweden's liberal press laws afraid that the u.s. would investigate him he hoped sweden would be a safe haven for him and for wiki leaks 'd at the time key servers were located in stockholm they have since been removed and relocated several times when he was in

sweden. and the 1st real great releases. after collateral murder. joe the reporter be careful a warning that proved to be well justified in stockholm massage had intercourse with 2 women allegedly unprotected after attempting to reach a sandwich personally the woman turned to the police to compel him to undergo testing for s.t.d. is the police open preliminary investigations into 4 counts of sexual offense overnight the story of a song as the rapist hit the headlines it would become an accusation he could never quite shake off the man i thought was a rock star over him i thought was an asshole and the post kind of swedish consensus from left to right up and down. in the meantime the hunt for julian assange and his informants had begun in the us.

we want what ever they have. returned to us and we want whatever copies they have expunged erased gone. we're not a lawless endeavor yet b. i have d.o.j. are also investigating this are also involved in this matter. later u.s. investigators discovered a chat protocol on one army privates computer it was to become a key piece of evidence and form the basis of the present charges. the sources sanjay was exchanging messages with in the spring of 2010 was in iraq. it was chelsea manning then bradley manning an intelligence analyst with the us

army. by in kansas the 2 didn't know each other personally only through their anonymous handles or aliases they proceeded getting to know. rather cautiously bit by bit. and the noise in a new approach to communicating. the sounds the new me's genocide's wrote in a material size never run dry this is this is quoted in the bill of indictment it's a very thin line while journalists should never incite anyone to steal or intrude to gain information they have course do want to know what their sources can offer

it was most remarkable time in the spring of 2900 u.s. federal grand jury and sealed indictment against just 17 further charges under the espionage act on obtaining and publishing classified information soon followed the possible sentences total up to 175 years in jail. count 18 of the indictment conspiracy to commit computer intrusion better known as hacking the sun is said to have given manning advice on how to remain anonymous. i believe she is closer to a spy than the journalist because his business about stealing information. his use of information is not informed by a story by a narrative and by a public point that needs to be made they were out to destroy because he exposed war crimes criminal activities murderer of hundreds of thousands displacement of millions. in

sweden a son who was being investigated by public prosecutors for an allegation of rape he had spent some time living temporarily with donald bostrom. the swedish journalist had tried to mediate between a song and the 2 women in question and also made a statement to the police. i read everywhere that he was a couple of running away escaping from everything and that's not the fact the fact is actually he went to the police he was in through a gate that he stayed another 5 weeks waiting for the next step in the process which never occurred. swedish authorities granted him permission to travel to london. then they wanted him back for more questioning insisting it take place in sweden. just for assurance that he would not be extradited to the u.s. his request was denied. and so he decided to apply for asylum in ecuador escaping 1st to their embassy in london. she

arrived 1 pm in the afternoon. she says side a petition. to be handed down. julian assange is currently in london and the ecuadorian embassy. because you are who has granted a songe asylum but it's unclear how he intends to get there from the london embassy the british police or outside ready to arrest him the moment here merges to get to the airport. was trapped in the heart of london. and sweden fell silent no hearing no charges. then in 2016 wiki leaks made another major release the d.n.c. leaks implicated the democratic party. including e-mails that showed a harsh light on hillary clinton's campaign manager. a skate by

veto there have been new e-mails disclosures once again jeopardizing hillary clinton's career. the end to the whistle blowing platform wiki leaks has released confidential even. pointing to the d.n.c. preferring clinton to run as the democratic presidential candidate instead of the outsider bernie sanders. they clearly dislike tillery clinton they didn't like her her campaign manager and he was happy to do whatever he could to damage their interests gentle whistleblowing platform wiki leaks quoted clinton from well paid speeches she allegedly held before wall street firms. what you like. this is a case where an external actor is actually as we would say putting their hand on the scale and making a difference. was

the russian intelligence service using the principle of wiki leaks to promote its own interest. that was part of robert muller's investigation in his report on russia's influence on the 26000 american elections. for $2.00 the name of the hacker who allegedly acquired and provided wiki leaks with emails according to special investigator muller russian intelligence service staff who have since been indicted were behind the hacks i now believe that it is something like 21st century hostile service working in collusion with the russian intelligence services in that campaign and i think for that reason its reputation the united states has been fatally damaged this was journalistic activity this was in the public interest to be published it. doesn't really matter where the material came from in the public interest to publish would you have

a duty to publish you'd don't chomp becomes the 45th president of the usa victory came after one of the most suspenseful election nights in u.s. history was donald trump. but his campaign team celebrate his victory. after being sworn into office trump claims he's never heard of wiki leaks donald trump do solemnly swear that it's unclear what impact the wiki leaks release had on the election result there is no evidence that we can fix knew who was behind the e-mail dump. what the leaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service we know the danger that a sonnet is not so merry band of brothers posted democracies around the world ignorance or misplaced idealism is no longer an acceptable excuse for lionizing

these demons you would agree with this director pompei all at once when he when he was when he made that remark that it's a hostile intelligence service correct. he made himself a target for intelligence services all over the world because of the information that he was released. if you're going to play with fire or going to get burned. the spanish company you see global was responsible for security in the ecuadorian embassy their boss david maraniss was a former spanish military officer with good contacts in the us. this started to. come in. and change all the not.

only goal should be protected. in 2017 presidential elections were held in ecuador. having already served 2 terms rafael correa who had previously granted asylum to his songs was unable to run again. welcome to the club of the persecuted. thank you president. obama. he was succeeded by the new president lenin moreno who sought a closer relationship with the u.s. . this also changed the atmosphere in the london embassy. security staff started confiscating visitors bags and mobile phones. they appeared to have been tasked with collecting as much information as possible. actress and activist pamela anderson would visit julian assange as regularly while

she was talking to him security staff apparently inspected her cell phone noting her password on a yellow slip. data seems to have been systematically gathered from assigned as gifts phones were forcibly opened private messages copied and stored without consent ration reports compiled the german public broadcasters n.p.r. and w.t.r. in possession of internal documents. in one e-mail the head of u.c. global rights quite openly. another regular visitor to the embassy is a songes lawyer to martinez coordinating a songes defense against the us from spain. will. see. it a lot more by mr a son was always very concerned about being listened in on. but i want them i personally asked the security staff several time limits on whether the cameras that

were installed everywhere could also record order c s case in court on him plus us . get up on all of this was always denied they might take it like when i mean maybe . they were going to. the ends we had all our conversations in the ladies' restrooms because mr assad was so worried about being heard but chpa taliban. according to one of the staff the security firm installed a bug in the ladies room shortly afterwards behind this box. and in the meeting room a bug was fitted inside the fire extinguisher. but. even consequential communication between lawyer and client is a fundamental right in every democratic country of the world and material seems to

have ended up in the hands of north america via the spanish security firm. who is ex who believe it is the c.e.o. . david marlo's is said to have frequently boasted to his staff about his connections to the us. an affidavit from a former employee states when i asked him who his american friends were he replied the us intelligence services. measure were us intelligence services and thus is really stupid also the emails are confidential belong to my company is our conversation private conversation but i have. spain's high court has open

investigations on david morris and you see global. when approached the us authorities made no statement about the inquiry in 2018 the security firm in the embassy. he was replaced. a son just internet connection was cut for good and hardly any visitors were allowed it's reported that even his shaving equipment was confiscated. the. chargers neetzan powerful i have never been involved with this case before city but then i took a closer look i took 2 medical experts with me and it's you should expect. that this is what we saw was that mr assad was actually showing all the symptoms a person normally displays when subjected to psychological torture over

a long period of time the sides will be shuffled because it's full. of ideas of he was stuck inside the embassy for 7 years with very little input from the outside world. not the 1st kind of he hardly received any visits from either from his lawyer or from friends he had no internet connection. on april 11th 2019 ecuador allowed the british police to enter the building. and their goal of their sons' founder of the whistle blowing platform wiki leaks has been arrested after almost 7 years asylum in the ecuadorian embassy in london that's going on in. other words she'd been right that he would be arrested as soon as he set foot outside the embassy with the extradition order to the usa to quickly follow.

that path that. includes patani and what a good story. he was placed before a judge straight after being arrested and convicted within just 15 minutes before during the whole trial the only words he uttered what i plead not guilty but the judges in the south of him as a narcissist saying he was only concerned with his personal interests. under the sins in a son i didn't press. stockholm 2019 for 9 years julian assange had been threatened with prosecution by the swedish judiciary. shortly after his arrest in london the public prosecutor in stockholm closed the proceedings due to a lack of evidence. julian assange has now locked up in

a high security prison in london the hurdles to prevent extradition from britain to the u.s. are not especially high. no evidence needs to be provided as long as there are grounds for suspicion of a crime having been committed. julian assange and his extradition hearing could be one of the biggest cases in british legal history. many on target now if these charges and the espionage act weren't so serious we should actually be laughing about it. after all receiving processing and releasing secret information is the daily bread and butter of journalism has taken journalists i don't believe in presenting journalists but. i think i can easily agree with somebody who is stealing government information

wholesale ought to be punished for that certainly not. said in tears for joy in a song this is not to dislodge just of course it's much easier to make an example of someone who violates. all the human rights when it's a person nobody likes. destroying assad's image undermining and tanishaa his reputation with sexual allegations this shady label and the hot truths rumored about him 1st of all parts of it. as we absorb it all through the media and other more willing to accept and tolerate the fact that he's being mistreated and he. doesn't even use humble. what's going to happen tomorrow. when china demands the extradition of a canadian journalist what happens when saudi arabia does the same thing about

someone living in argentina we are setting a precedent right now that we are going to live with for the next 100 years and no matter what you feel about joining us the methods that wiki leaks and everyone connected to would have pioneered have changed the way journalism is done and if we cannot recognize that and we are not willing to protect it i think the saddest part of this whole story is we probably don't deserve it and as a result we will no longer have it when we need it the most.

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