Julian Assange on Aiding Snowden, Criticism of "The Intercept's" Pierre Omidyar & Security Issues

[KoKo]

PART 2 of Amy Goodman's interview in Ecuadorian Embassy with Julian Assange

Assange discusses background of Wikileaks' accomplishments ongoing revelations helping the legal cases of those unlawfully detained and tortured, plus his views on how personal and state security can be secured along with a wide range of other topics. Whether one has a personal favorable view of Assange or not (based on the Wikileaks revelations).

This interview goes into depths about his personal views on privacy, human rights and justice that I think few here on DU would disagree with. Plus he answers (in the beginning of the piece) Hillary's statements about his coming back to the USA. Amy Goodman is playing the Hillary interview on her laptop where he answers each of her statements)
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Part two of an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sits down with Democracy Now! inside the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where he has been living in political asylum for over two years. Assange explains his critique of First Look Media and The Intercept for agreeing not to name a country targeted by bulk National Security Agency spying, following U.S. government concerns that doing so could lead to increased violence. Assange and WikiLeaks went on to reveal the targeted country, Afghanistan, which along with the Bahamas had all of its cellphone calls recorded. "That is as great an assault to sovereignty as you can imagine, other than completely militarily occupying a country, to record the intimate phone calls of every single Afghan citizen," Assange says. "My perspective is, [this is] up to the Afghan people." Assange also gives an overview of the close to eight million documents WikiLeaks has released since 2007 about nearly every country in the world; details how WikiLeaks helped Edward Snowden evade U.S. arrest and find political asylum in Russia; and addresses his prospects for ever being able to leave the Ecuadorean Embassy without fear of arrest.

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[navarth]

1. watched this earlier. very worthwhile, thank you.

very disappointing and perplexing about the intercept thing. Jeremy Schahill and Matt Taibbi are involved, so my tendency is to trust. But some of the things said are troubling.