Julian Assange
Julian Assange
Julian Paul Assangeis an Australian computer programmer, publisher and journalist. He is editor-in-chief of the organisation WikiLeaks, which he founded in 2006...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth3 July 1971
CityTownsville, Australia
CountryAustralia
entered public record volumes
Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.
response
Has WikiLeaks been forced to do one thing rather than another in response to resource constraints? Yes. Constantly.
journalist espionage
The Obama administration has attempted to prosecute more journalists and journalistic sources under the same Espionage Act she was being investigated under in all previous presidencies combined.
winner virtue
As always, most media aligns with the presumptive winner even though their claimed societal virtue is to investigate those in power.
first-amendment national-security security
There's, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment.
trying battle world
Wikileaks has - we specialize in bringing the First Amendment to the world, and we were always very surprised one of our biggest battles would be trying to bring it to the United States under an Obama administration.
trying world plant
WikiLeaks is literally the worst place in the world to try and plant a false story.
difficulty
The difficulty that WikiLeaks has, of course, is that we can't go around speculating on who our sources are. That would be irresponsible.
broken important liberty
If you see the rhetoric from coming out of the Democrats is that they're pro-civil liberties, and an important part of civil liberties is respect for the First Amendment and the rule of law, and that has broken down under the Obama administration, and Hillary Clinton was part of that process.
military big-business
The US presidency will continue to represent the major power groups of the United States - big business and the military - regardless of who the talking head is.
law movement construction
This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law.
giving political historical
If a source gives us material that is of political, diplomatic, ethical or historical significance that has not been published before and is comprised of official documents or recordings, then WikiLeaks will publish it.
character injustice ability
Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.
ignorant cages persons
To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.