“I mean, there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.” WorldWayMeanHardStatesUnitedUnited StatesSpeechPressureChinaEnormousAround The WorldFreedom Of SpeechLegislationTransparency Author:Julian Assange
“Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.” StatesBuildingInternetEssentialsArmyIndependenceBlockOrganisationBuilding BlocksCryptography Author:Julian Assange
“As a European Union member state, as a country committed throughout all its history to the fight for the values that I have made my own, as the fifth world power, as a country that has marked my life and European Union houses part of European Union, France can act if it wishes to do so.” IfsWorldLifeMadeCountryStatesValuesFightingHouseWishMy OwnMembersUnionsCommittedFranceFifthEuropean UnionWorld Power Author:Julian Assange
“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.” WorldTryingFirstsStatesWould BeUnitedUnited StatesBattleAdministrationAmendmentsFirst AmendmentWikileaks Author:Julian Assange
“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.” StatesBigsUnitedTalkingUnited StatesGroupsMilitaryMajorsPresidencyBig BusinessTalking Heads Author:Julian Assange
“Let us not compare Edward Snowden's situation with that of Chelsea Manning or Jeremy Hammond, who is also imprisoned in the United States. As a result of WikiLeaks' hard work, Edward Snowden has political asylum, has travel documents, lives with his girlfriend, goes to the ballet and earns substantial speaking fees. Edward Snowden is essentially free and happy. That is no coincidence. It was my strategy to undo the chilling effect of the 35 year Manning sentence and it has worked.” YearsHardStatesPoliticalUnitedResultsSituationUnited StatesEffectsHard WorkStrategySentencesCompareGirlfriendBalletDocumentsCoincidenceChillFeesAsylumsChelseaWikileaksSnowden Author:Julian Assange
“The FBI demonstrated this by taking down the former head of the CIA [General David Petraeus] over classified information given to his mistress. Almost no-one is untouchable. The FBI is always trying to demonstrate that no-one can resist us. But Hillary Clinton very conspicuously resisted the FBI's investigation, so there's anger within the FBI because it made the FBI look weak. We've published about 33,000 of Clinton's emails when she was Secretary of State.” TryingLooksMadeStatesGivenInformationWeakClintonFormerInvestigationSecretaryEmailMistressAlways TryingCiaFbiUntouchablesClassified Information Author:Julian Assange
“There are the Podesta emails we've been publishing. [John] Podesta is Hillary Clinton's primary campaign manager, so there's a thread that runs through all these emails; there are quite a lot of pay-for-play, as they call it, giving access in exchange for money to states, individuals and corporations.” GivingStatesPlayRunningIndividualPayClintonAccessCampaignsManagersPrimariesCorporationsThreadPublishingEmail Author:Julian Assange
“There's an early 2014 email from Hillary Clinton, not so long after she left the State Department, to her campaign manager John Podesta that states ISIL is funded by the governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Now this is the most significant email in the whole collection, and perhaps because Saudi and Qatari money is spread all over the Clinton Foundation.” LongStatesWholeGovernmentLeftFoundationClintonSpreadCampaignsSignificantManagersDepartmentCollectionsEmailArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisIsilQatar Author:Julian Assange
“In fact, during her [Hillary Clinton] tenure as Secretary of State, total arms exports from the United States in terms of the dollar value, doubled.” StatesFactsValuesTermUnitedUnited StatesArmsDollarsClintonSecretaryTenure Author:Julian Assange
“Hillary Clinton represents a whole network of people and a network of relationships with particular states.” PeopleStatesWholeParticularClinton Author:Julian Assange
“The question is how does Hilary Clinton fit in this broader network? She's a centralising cog. You've got a lot of different gears in operation from the big banks like Goldman Sachs and major elements of Wall Street, and Intelligence and people in the State Department and the Saudis.” PeopleDoeDifferentStatesBigsStreetsWallFitElementsMajorsClintonOperationsDepartmentGearsSaudisCogsGoldman SachsHilary Clinton Author:Julian Assange
“Hillary Clinton is the smooth central representation of all that, and 'all that' is more or less what is in power now in the United States. It's what we call the establishment or the DC consensus. One of the more significant Podesta emails that we released was about how the Obama cabinet was formed and how half the Obama cabinet was basically nominated by a representative from Citi Bank. This is quite amazing.” StatesUnitedHalfUnited StatesClintonSignificantEstablishmentRepresentativesRepresentationSmoothEmailConsensusCabinets Author:Julian Assange
“There's more than 1700 emails out of the thirty three thousand Hillary Clinton emails that we've published, just about Libya. It's not that Libya has cheap oil. She perceived the removal of [Muammar] Gaddafi and the overthrow of the Libyan state - something that she would use in her run-up to the general election for President.” StatesUseRunningThreePresidentThousandElectionClintonOilThirtyEmailRemovalLibyaGeneral ElectionsGaddafiMuammar Gaddafi Author:Julian Assange
“In late 2011 there is an internal document called the Libya Tick Tock that was produced for Hillary Clinton, and it's the chronological description of how she was the central figure in the destruction of the Libyan state, which resulted in around 40,000 deaths within Libya; jihadists moved in, ISIS moved in, leading to the European refugee and migrant crisis.” StatesFiguresLateDestructionCrisisMovedClintonInternalsDescriptionDocumentsRefugeeIsisTickLibyaMigrantsTockTick Tock Author:Julian Assange
“Not only did you have people fleeing Libya, people fleeing Syria, the destabilisation of other African countries as a result of arms flows, but the Libyan state itself err was no longer able to control the movement of people through it.” PeopleCountryStatesAbleResultsMovementArmsFlowSyriaLibyaFleeing Author:Julian Assange
“Libya faces along to the Mediterranean and had been effectively the cork in the bottle of Africa. So all problems, economic problems and civil war in Africa - previously people fleeing those problems didn't end up in Europe because Libya policed the Mediterranean. That was said explicitly at the time, back in early 2011 by [Muammar] Gaddafi: 'What do these Europeans think they're doing, trying to bomb and destroy the Libyan State? There's going to be floods of migrants out of Africa and jihadists into Europe, and this is exactly what happened.” PeopleThinkingTryingSaidWarEndsStatesProblemFacesHappenedEconomicEuropeCivil WarBombsBottlesFloodLibyaMigrantsFleeingEconomic ProblemsCorkGaddafiMuammar Gaddafi Author:Julian Assange
“I would be immediately arrested by the British police and I would then be extradited either immediately to the United States or to Sweden. In Sweden I am not charged, I have already been previously cleared [by the Senior Stockholm Prosecutor Eva Finne]. We were not certain exactly what would happen there, but then we know that the Swedish government has refused to say that they will not extradite me to the United States we know they have extradited 100 per cent of people whom the U.S. has requested since at least 2000.” PeopleKnowsStatesGovernmentHappensWould BeCertainUnitedUnited StatesPoliceBritishCentsSeniorArrestedSwedenProsecutorSwedishStockholm Author:Julian Assange
“Of course, no state accepts [that it should call] the people it is imprisoning or detaining for political reasons, political prisoners. They don't call them political prisoners in China, they don't call them political prisoners in Azerbaijan and they don't call them political prisoners in the United States, U.K. or Sweden; it is absolutely intolerable to have that kind of self-perception.” PeopleShouldKindSelfStatesReasonPoliticalCoursesUnitedAcceptingUnited StatesPerceptionChinaPrisonerSwedenSelf PerceptionPolitical PrisonersAzerbaijanDetaining Author:Julian Assange
“Here we have a case, the Swedish case, where I have never been charged with a crime, where I have already been cleared [by the Stockholm prosecutor] and found to be innocent, where the woman herself said that the police made it up, where the United Nations formally said the whole thing is illegal, where the State of Ecuador also investigated and found that I should be given asylum. Those are the facts, but what is the rhetoric?” ShouldMadeSaidStatesWholeFactsFoundGivenNationsUnitedCasesCrimePoliceInnocentMade ItIllegalRhetoricUnited NationsAsylumsProsecutorSwedishEcuadorStockholm Author:Julian Assange
“[The rhetoric] is trying to avoid [the truth that ] the U.N. formally found that the whole thing is illegal, never even mentioning that Ecuador made a formal assessment through its formal processes and found that yes, I am subject to persecution by the United States.” TryingMadeStatesWholeFoundProcessUnitedUnited StatesSubjectsIllegalRhetoricFormalPersecutionAssessmentEcuador Author:Julian Assange
“Libya faces along to the Mediterranean and had been effectively the cork in the bottle of Africa. So all problems, economic problems and civil war in Africa - previously people fleeing those problems didn't end up in Europe because Libya policed the Mediterranean. That was said explicitly at the time, back in early 2011 by Gaddafi: 'What do these Europeans think they're doing, trying to bomb and destroy the Libyan State? There's going to be floods of migrants out of Africa and jihadists into Europe', and this is exactly what happened.” PeopleThinkingTryingSaidWarEndsStatesProblemFacesHappenedEconomicEuropeCivil WarBombsBottlesFloodLibyaMigrantsFleeingEconomic ProblemsCorkGaddafi Author:Julian Assange
“Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented. Here we have the world's most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their locations and the communications with each other, their relatives, all sitting within the United States, all accessible to US intelligence. Facebook, Google, Yahoo.. all these major US organizations have built-in interfaces for US intelligence. It's not a matter of serving a subpoena. They have an interface that they have developed for US intelligence to use.” PeopleWorldMatterStatesUseNamesUnitedUnited StatesParticularCommunicationMajorsSittingBuiltMachinesOrganizationAddressesServingGoogleLocationComprehensiveInterfacesDatabasesSubpoenas Author:Julian Assange
“Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.” ShouldStatesUnitedUnited StatesBuildingAddAgencyDatabasesIntelligence Agencies Author:Julian Assange
“Now, is it the case that Facebook is actually run by U.S. intelligence? No, it's not like that. It's simply that U.S. intelligence is able to bring to bear legal and political pressure on them. And it's costly for them to hand out records one by one, so they have automated the process. Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.” ShouldStatesHandsRunningAblePoliticalProcessUnitedCasesUnited StatesRecordsBuildingBearsPressureAddAgencyDatabasesIntelligence Agencies Author:Julian Assange
“Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.” WellsMeanRealStatesUnitedUnited StatesTruth IsJournalismTabloidsMean Girls Author:Julian Assange
