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Julian Assange on Bradley Manning and Political Payback
In the buildup to Julian Assange’s run for the Australian senate, VICE was invited to the Ecuadorian embassy in London for a rare in-person interview. Our visit coincided with the conviction of Bradley Manning, the young US Army private whose alleged espionage put WikiLeaks on the map. Assange spoke to us about political payback, his plans for freeing the most famous whistle-blower in history, and why the world needs a WikiLeaks political party.
It actually starts at the6:15marker: WikiLeaks held its presser in response to the CIA report on the US presidential election. Julian Assange said that the so-called report by the US Intelligence Community on the alleged Russian interference in the US election is not an intelligence report, but a press release “designed for a political effect.”
Assange also said that US intelligence agencies became politicized under the administration of US President Barack Obama. “The evidentiary weight [of the report] is literally zero, there is no evidence of any kind supplied,” Assange said. “In relation to Trump, it’s an interesting situation, the US population turned against the elite. When the elites stop listening to the population, the population stops listening to the elites,” Assange noted. “What elites don’t like is Donald Trump,” he added.
Donald Trump is a “destabilizing force” in a good sense of the word, Assange said. There are a lot of “anti-DC and anti-establishment people” in Trump’s incoming administration, the Wikileaks founder said, answering a question whether he thinks whistleblowers will be safer in the upcoming admin or will they continue to be persecuted.
Julian Assange – Live Reddit AMA [FULL CLEAN AUDIO] (1/10/2017)
Julian Assange answers questions from Reddit’s Ask Me Anything on a broad range of issues related to WikiLeaks, including confirming or denying sources, whistleblowers and the role of governments, the NSA, the media and more.