Monday, January 31, 2011

60 Minutes Talks To the Founder Of Wikileaks Julian Assange



Julian Assange, The Man Behind WikiLeaks -- CBS News

Talks To Steve Kroft About The U.S. Attempt To Indict Him And The Criticism Aimed At Him For Publishing Classified Documents.

(CBS) Just a few months ago, most people had never heard of a Web site called WikiLeaks, or of its mysterious and eccentric founder, Julian Assange. But in that short period of time both have managed to rattle the worlds of journalism, diplomacy, and national security. WikiLeaks, which solicits and publishes secrets and suppressed material from whistleblowers around the world, has been under cyber attack from governments that want to shut it down. And Assange is currently under legal attack from the U.S. government which would like to charge him with espionage for publishing volumes of classified material from the Pentagon and the State Department.

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My Comment: The second part of this interview can be found here.

1 comment:

Seth Miller said...

Here’s what Assange COULD have said about being a “subversive”:

Rethinking Subversion, a response to Sixty Minute’s Kroft on behalf of Julian Assange...
http://www.spiritalchemy.com/blog/rethinking-subversion

Briefly, "If I am a subversive, it is only in relation to subversives: I want to subvert the subversives!"