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Julian Assange Biography

Julian Paul Assange (/əˈsɑːnʒ/; né Hawkins; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian computer programmer and the editor of WikiLeaks. Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006, but came to international attention in 2010, when WikiLeaks published a series of leaks provided by Chelsea Manning. These leaks included the Collateral Murder video (April 2010), the Afghanistan war logs (July 2010), the Iraq war logs (October 2010), and CableGate (November 2010). Following the 2010 leaks, the federal government of the United States launched a criminal investigation into WikiLeaks and asked allied nations for assistance.

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In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions.

Different, Editors, Everything, Fighting, Move, Moving

The rhetoric is pretending, constantly pretending that I have been charged with a crime, and never mentioning that I have been already previously cleared, never mentioning that the woman herself says that the police made it up.

Constantly, Crime, Police, Pretending, Says, Woman

The goal is justice, the method? is transparency. It's important not to confuse the goal and the method.

Confuse, Goal, Important, Justice, Transparency

Our [Russia]documents have gone on to be used in quite a number of court cases: refugee cases of people fleeing some kind of claimed political persecution in Russia, which they use our documents to back up.

Back, Documents, Numbers, People, Russia

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.

Amendment, Battle, Bring, States, Trying, United States

What we know is everything, it is our limit, of what we can be.

Everything, Know, Knows, Limit, Limits

It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on.

Abuse, Correct, Domestic Violence, Impossible, Unless, Wikileaks

I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable.

Enjoy, Helping, People, Vulnerable

[Let's talk about] Donald Trump. What does he represent in the American mind and in the European mind? He represents American white trash, [which Hillary Clinton called] 'deplorable and irredeemable'. It means from an establishment or educated cosmopolitan, urbane perspective, these people are like the red necks, and you can never deal with them.

Donald, Like, Mean, People, White

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

Decision, Good, Ignorance, Lying, Truth

I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.

Book, Documentaries, Firsts, Internet

In the United Kingdom at various stages, journalism has been the profession of gentlemen amateurs. And some of them even pride themselves on being amateurs. Their quality is not comparable with the quality of intelligence services even if most of them harbor a remarkable degree of corruption and incompetence.

Comparable, Gentleman, Gentlemen, Intelligence Services, Pride

The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us.

Helpful, Large, Leaks, People, Supply

Even the U. S. government agrees that some Saudi figures have been supporting ISIL, or ISIS.

Government, Isil, Isis, Supporting

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.

Department, Doe, Goldman, Hilary, People, Wall

I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.

Big, Fan, Fans, Freedom, Likes, Regulation

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

Censorship, Form, Leaks, Stopping

The West has political prisoners.

Political, Prisoner, Prisoners, West

We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up.

Acting, Compelled, Forward, People, Screw, Would Be

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.

Eva, Government, Happen, People, Police, Senior

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