Viewers catching up with The Julian Assange Show may now experience a reality-TV buzz followed by a pang of anxiety. |
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Then they discovered that Assange instead had made deals with a far-right party as well as one that is militantly pro-gun. |
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Once said to have been rewriting the rules of journalism, Assange has become an outlaw librarian. |
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Assange also has been blitzed by some 10,000 messages supporting his cause and urging Ecuador to grant him asylum. |
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And what a pleasant surprise to find that Assange, a card-carrying whistleblower, can wear more than one hat. |
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Like Assange, Snowden is a tempting piece on the Ecuadoran caudillo's geopolitical game board. |
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In 2011, the wires were clogged with stories of a potential Peace Prize gong for Julian Assange. |
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Assange did not have to decrypt them to share them with The New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel. |
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This is because they would be only available in encrypted form and there would be no way for someone like Assange to decrypt them. |
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Assange can hardly pretend to lack the intention of disseminating secrets to people not entitled to possess them. |
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Assange is a maker of mischief and a seeker of publicity, exposing confidential material because he can. |
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Assange was in the ecuadorean embassy in London, Snowden an undisclosed location in Russia. |
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Julian Assange may have blown his best chance to leave the ecuadorean Embassy and return home to Australia as a free man. |
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The ecuadorean ambassador, Ana Alban, was forced to dash home to fetch a blow-up mattress for Assange to sleep on. |
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Assange has an international network of lawyers and legal advisers, many of whom work on a pro bono basis. |
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Smith spoke guardedly of the 13 months during which Assange was his houseguest. |
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We forgive them insofar as Assange and company weaken American power and American authority. |
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Two of the biggest of those, Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, are currently persona non grata in much of the Western world. |
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Sweden has said it will not extradite Assange to the US if he faces the death penalty for espionage. |
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This approach easily sweeps Assange and WikiLeaks into its ambit. |
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Finally we get to see Assange forgoing diplomacy and deference. |
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Pfc. Bradley Manning leaked classified information to Assange. |
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Julian Assange personally reads every document to be published, types it up and formats it on his laptop while wearing a beaglepuss. |
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Weighing Risks Assange said he initially thought he might be holed up in the embassy, a diplomatic facility in one of London's swishest areas, for up to two years. |
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Many of the speakers featured, including David Leigh and Heather Brooke, had spoken out openly against WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange in the past. |
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