Visitors Now:
Total Visits:
Total Stories:

By Tom Dennen, the paranoid historian (Reporter)
Contributor profile | More stories

Story Views
Now:
Last Hour:
Last 24 Hours:
Total:

As Assange Nears 3 Years of “House Arrest” – Use Wikileaks Like You Use Wikipedia – Measure the Truth Against the Lies…

Monday, December 16, 2013 1:52

% of readers think this story is Fact. Add your two cents.

(Before It's News)

“This is what we want to achieve – to bring people to use WikiLeaks website the same way millions of us use Wikipedia, as a universal encyclopaedia which allows you to measure the partiality of other sources of information.”

[U.S. Intlligence people] “…are definitely not real-life James Bonds. More a vast number of sickly office workers dreaming about their next holiday.”

Julian Assange explains how “little Publisher” Wikileaks beat the Pentagon

WikiLeaks’ major achievement is in weakening the authority of US intelligence, according to the whistleblowing website founder, Julian Assange, who has just marked three years under virtual house arrest in the UK.

Julian Assange believes that the WikiLeaks website he founded represents “an example of a small publisher beating the Pentagon” and by doing so reducing the public fear of government institutions.

“If a small publisher can beat the Pentagon, then some committed and strong political groups in various countries don’t have to be quite as scared of US as they have been before,” Assange said in a comprehensive interview given to Slovenia’s Delo newspaper. “The US intelligence agencies have a big budget and immense technological resources, but the more we learn about them, the more we see how incompetent they are. They are definitely not real-life James Bonds. More a vast number of sickly office workers dreaming about their next holiday.”

Assange has acidly compared the government agencies that had their activities exposed by WikiLeaks’ revelations, to “creepy and sleazy beetles which start to run around in panic when the stone which was shielding them from the daylight is torn away.”

This panic has led to a severe crackdown on whistleblowers. The most recent example has been the persecution of Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor, who is wanted in the US on espionage charges and has found temporary asylum in Russia.

Assange himself has spent the last three years under virtual house arrest in the UK. For more than half of this time he was confined to a five square-meter room, after he had been granted asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, fearing extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted in relation to a sexual misconduct investigation. The WikiLeaks founder has labelled the investigation as politically motivated and has said it will lead to his further extradition to the US, where he could be brought to court for leaking sensitive data.

Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning, a major WikiLeaks contributor, was sentenced to 35 years in August 2013 for having released classified files. Assange believes Manning’s revelations should have led to quite different trials.

WikiLeaks

wikileaks.org/‎

News for wikileaks

wikipedia.org/wiki/ikiLeaks‎

WikiLeaks is an international, online, non-profit organisation which publishes secret information, news leaks, and classified media from anonymous sources.

WikiLeaks (wikileaks) on Twitter

https://twitter.com/wikileaks‎

.WikiLeaks | Media | The Guardian

www.theguardian.com › News › Media‎