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Julian Assange
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 3
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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.
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Don’t damage computer systems you break into (including crashing them) don’t change the information in those systems (except for altering logs to cover your tracks) and share information.
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WikiLeaks is a source protection organization. We are famous for never having exposed one of our sources over 10 years. That's why sources trust us and they come to us.
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Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present.
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In the justice system, we say there must be open justice where there is to be justice. The judged while trying must themselves be tried before the public.
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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.
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I actually feel quite sorry for Hillary Clinton as a person because I see someone who is eaten alive by their ambitions, tormented literally to the point where they become sick they faint as a result of [the reaction] to their ambitions.
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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.
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You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.
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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.
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That is vaguely conspiratorial, in a networking sense. We have published their meeting notes.
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There's, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment.
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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.
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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.
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[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.
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If you look at the history of the FBI, it has become effectively America's political police.
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Power is a thing of perception. They don't need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you
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We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.
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Libya, more than anyone else's war, was Hillary Clinton's war. Barak Obama initially opposed it. Who was the person championing it? Hillary Clinton. That's documented throughout her emails.
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Hillary Clinton represents a whole network of people and a network of relationships with particular states.
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