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Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.

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Julian Assange
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 3
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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.
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That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth, and that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information.
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And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners.
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Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.
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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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There is unity in the oppression. There must be absolute unity and determination, in the response.
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Those who are repeatedly passive in the face of injustice soon find their character corroded.
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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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Power factions fight back with lies.
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We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.
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Has WikiLeaks been forced to do one thing rather than another in response to resource constraints? Yes. Constantly.
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If you were following the [Barack] Obama campaign back then, closely, you could see it had become very close to banking interests. So I think you can't properly understand Hillary Clinton's foreign policy without understanding Saudi Arabia.
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My motivation for 20 years, for 10 years with WikiLeaks, has been to publish true information that is otherwise unsayable. So we're not in competition, if you like.
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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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I may be a chauvinist pig of some sort, but I'm no rapist.
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Hilary Clinton stated multiple times, falsely, that seventeen U.S. intelligence agencies had assessed that Russia was the source of our publications. That is false we can say that the Russian government is not the source.
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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.
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I don't like the word transparency cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.
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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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We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, he said, I get undue credit.
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