Founder of wiki leaks struggled to prevent his diplomatic asylum from coming to an end. At 10 15 in the morning Julian Assange was removed from the embassy where he had spent 2487 days or. The arrest marked a new chapter in the saga of the wiki leaks founder. Moved before us ecuadors minister of Foreign Affairs who is julian a son should i mean by any for me and the country of ecuador Julian Assange is an Australian Citizen who applied for asylum in our embassy in london in 2012 have a record on the us and this asylum lasted for nearly 7 years. The last night. Really through. It out on a city that he was famous one of the worlds big media celebrities someone who is deeply loved or passionately hated depending on your interests and point of view. That it was he said to the phone this. Morning id be concerned though that is in myers around the world misguided that they might be 1st of all vying as an enemy of the United States someone who tried to. And successfully released tens of thousands of documents that really harmed our National Security he almost undermined the entire operation to get Osama Bin Laden through his leaks. Were. A phony assizes the citizens Intelligence Service. And made of looking weak easy to us and wiki leaks and Julian Assange changed the course of history even if he spends the rest of his life in prison hes already made history to this to that. And yeah i wish to you. On april 11th 2016 exactly 3 years before a songes arrest to ecuadorian Security Officers seized our i. D. s and mobile phones and searched our bags. Obtaining an interview with the sonship took months of negotiations with his closest confidant. For 2 with the. First question oh you do. People off this question that about the same as any other day. I my angry about the situation of course do you have to pay a price for the things youve been reading of course. Love or hate Julian Assange the documents released by wiki leaks shocked the world. The growing tunnel files leak laid bare the inner workings of the american prison camp and the torture that was carried out there. The collateral murder footage revealed the killing of iraqi civilians in 2 journalists shot down like targets in a video game. The war logs leak of classified military documents about the conflicts in iraq and afghanistan exposed to looting torture and kidnapping other files shed light on 50 years of u. S. Diplomatic policy and helped expose Bashar Al Assad and his corrupt regime. Wiki leaks also helped engineer the escape of Edward Snowden the former n. S. A. Employee who lifted the veil of secrecy from global u. S. Surveillance operations. A World WithoutJulian Assange on jan wiki leaks that would also mean that revelations about u. S. Spying on french president s would never have been made public. When we revealed that the 3 presidencies had be deeply penetrated by the United States and the president s personally sparkle. Should have been the critic response to tejas see the French Intelligence Services. Come immediately to us and say do you have more how we failed. To protect the president. From u. S. Spying. That didnt happen so why didnt that happen well i dont believe the French Intelligence Services are idiots. They knew that the 1st thing to do but the concern about possibly offending the americans their concern was so much higher that they preferred to be a victim i didnt understand what was going on. Aug 2010 in the swedish capital stockholm julian a son she responded to the ultimatum the pentagon had issued to wiki leaks. One of those demands was that we destroy our archives of classified information relating to the pentagon and the 3rd model was that we stop dealing with us military was what was if we did not follow those demands then we would. A few days later a son a man who many applauded as an icon of transparency stood accused of Sexual Assault. Tomas consequence is a journalist at the swedish newspaper express and he covered the assigned case as it was happening. Julian a source was visiting sweden he met these 2 women 2 different locations and eventually very accused him of rape and Sexual Assault the case made International Headlines songes attorney in britain later stated that 2 swedish prosecutors told him the case did not involve rape but sex by surprise. Swedens laws on Sexual Assault moved to the center of the accusations. I think the case was shelved and then rolled out again indicating that theres presumably a crisis bit more behind it that he simply splendid french this would not have been right. The 2 women agreed that they had on separate occasions and gauged in consensual sex with a songe but they accused him of failing to use a condom as they had asked. For. They filed a complaint and suddenly found themselves in the global spotlight. The swedish investigation against julius sanch was beset by controversy. So express a real be one of the investigators knew one of the women who accused julian a song very hard written to each other on facebook before this all happened they had also been involved in the same Political Party and this came off to Julian Assange and so his legal team have criticised the prosecutors and the police. To solve the case they should have completed the investigation. Witnesses should have been head and the Text Messages between him and the women submitted in order to establish the facts of the case that in the bunch of addiction. Appeared before the authorities but said he had to go abroad because of sis an obligation he did what he had the right to do he. Left sweden and headed for london after 2 years of legal wrangling the british courts ruled that the swedish extradition request was legitimate and activated the warrant for his arrest. Sanch feared he would be extradited to sweden he fled to the Ecuadorian Embassy where he was granted political asylum. On the villa is a german computer hacker and friend of julian a son. He came forward to clarify a son just position with respect to the swedish authorities. After the young over the years in writing and through his lawyers he repeatedly offered sweden that he would permit himself to be extradited for questioning and for the purposes of a hearing in court about the 2 womens accusations of coercion. Being new to go when i was young but he wanted sweden to agree that they would not extradite him to the United States and the swedish government wasnt willing to grant this condition. Thats why he hasnt been able to respond to the case and the accusations that have been made against him for all these years. Before were for months until swedish prosecutors had not exhausted the range of International Legal means that would have committed questioning in england. On june 19th 2012 Julian Assange slip through the net of the British Intelligence services. The man who opened the door of the Ecuadorian Embassy was then console not a bias. A seal this is the 7 years of asylum in our embassy didnt have anything to do with sweden from the 1st day our government emphasized that they wouldnt interfere in the swedish investigation Julian Assange didnt go to sweden because he feared he would be extradited to the u. S. News. There was a Major Investigation of wiki leaks underway. They qaeda demoed see it thats why we concluded that his life rights and freedom were threatened to lose that it was not by the swedes. And but by the americans all but when they missed us in the city you see no problem with us your list also needs. Psychic on the death of the environment around us os became more hostile here off to year. When i visited him at 1st the guards were still offering me coffee back at the end the atmosphere was really tense in the hardly let anyone in to see today and ashley and. Eventually a new government came into power in ecuador april 2nd 2017 lenin moreno was elected president. Its a moment he says hes not sorry at that moment he hadnt yet suspected that his relations with ecuador would worsen and while on the a loony equal the only country that was protecting him he ended the asylum and turned a songe over to his pursuers but when you say consuls to say you know this. Why did ecuadors new government change course. We went to the capital quito to find out more. Lenin moreno held a speech before the national assembly. I think of the. Electricity but he did know this is possible a lot of us know us but most other. Not without. Going through the door. Letting go of the past would that also mean closing the lid on the leaked documents known in ecuador as the gain of papers which implicated the president and his family in. Money laundering Lennon Marino blamed the wiki leaks for the scandal. Was there a connection between that leak and Julian Assange is a rest. The case falls under the purview of ecuadors minister of Foreign Affairs. He granted us an interview. So i mean to put his asylum at the embassy was ended because of his inappropriate behavior and for other reasons as well. As it was thought he had interfered in the affairs of other countries attacked a guard and installed an authorized equipment. He tried to subvert the Embassy Security system and accused us of spying on him. In short he was accusing us of crimes you commit the ecuadorian government could not tolerate that and no other country would have tolerated it either. It also means you can know there were a few isolated incidents that in no way reflected julians overall behavior. And. They had the goal of ensuring julien no longer felt comfortable there. The problem he was deliberately harassed and provoked to elicit incidents that would justify the unjustifiable. Then they wanted to end his political asylum and use the pretext of alleged incidents within the embassy in this. Then throw the line behind. I mean thats how the continuous vote on this get for the threaten to push certain buttons if you felt threatened or harassed by ecuadors government. People that base you know all that was a matter of substantial concern but again it was because we wanted to avoid risk by we employ diplomatic channels to ask the British Police for support or would people if we had to go eat the more they didnt see on the left. What buttons and threats were being referenced here did a signs have any documents he was planning to release ecuadors new government changed the Company Responsible for monitoring a songe in the embassy. Before 2017 songe was monitored by u. C. Global a private Security Company with offices in a number of countries. Journalist for nanda v i v senseo also investigated the events. Is this in may this is the award they present to ecuadors best investigative journalist. Last year i received it from my investigation of the case of julian a sandwich. You know suspended moreno terminated u. C. Globals contract and hired problem security an ecuadorian Security Company without any Intelligence Service or Public Security experience the company came out of nowhere and fulfilled the same tasks as you see global you know. It all that the new company doesnt answer to former president korea but is working for lenny merinos government. Surveillance videos began to appear online. They showed julian a son in the kitchen hallway and in the living room at the embassy. But it is good all of this was how they transmitted to the merino government all the information interrogation protocols and assessments of surveillance that took place everywhere in the embassy you know the motive. Why would the ecuadorian government have been trusted an unknown company to monitor a man wanted by the u. S. Intelligence services. Fundamental in late 2017 problem security took over responsibility for security at your embassy or the new staff given new instructions by the sick no i dont think this new contract had anything to do with the security directives in the embassy none of this is the other so is the family and id like to emphasize that there werent any cameras installed in mr a song just private quarters at the 3 rooms he lived in. Signs. So who owns the cameras that bilmes julian asuncion private. Homes could plan security have carried out an espionage operation without your knowledge. That said us we dont know if someone installed a server. And system independently of this company this. System. From security was just a front they use the name of this company as a cover to carry out espionage activities without interference that the name of the company doesnt matter at all whether its pepito neato or problem security hiding behind this name or just the interests of the merino government. Is standing dennis is. Is that. So they can equal julian was told that his Internet Access and his phone service were being terminated Effective Immediately on the orders of ecuadors government li embassy isnt a jail but it had been turned into one that. After Julian Assange his arrest ecuadorian authorities seems to some of his personal belongings. They left his clothes but confiscated computers hard drives Electronic Devices and documents. Carlos beauvais that is Julian Assange his attorney in ecuador. We were denied access to the evidence that was allegedly found in his personal effects i fear and ill say this directly that they could go as far as fabricating evidence there are no witnesses this socalled evidence could be used to support the other geishas against him by the us. Needs. Our prosecutors received a request for judicial assistance from the u. S. Department of justice to confiscate some of mr a song just personal belongings because they could be relevant to the investigation against him. This binocs will these documents be turned over to the u. S. Yes absolutely we could do that because the request for judicial assistance requires us to provide copies of these archival documents to the country that filed the request. That night but did. But one mustnt assume that the documents or other items of evidence from the embassy necessarily implicate mr a song. Sounds. We know that the u. S. Has a lot of information about the merino government. And their behavior is reaction to pressure from the u. S. As well as you on this over the years the United States had indeed grown increasingly frustrated by its songe and wiki leaks. In 2016 he raised the ire of the Democratic Party. Running for president wiki leaks published thousands of internal emails which helped doom Hillary Clintons president ial campaign against donald trump. Was even accused of working for russia. Few democratic lawmakers are willing to speak openly about the assigns case. Rachel rizzo is a Democratic Party expert for National Security. Among the very very left leaning democrats the United States and there is a sense of you know free speech and the publics right to know but i also think that. You know the release of highly Sensitive Information from the people working on the campaign or you know people that were trying to help Hillary Clinton be elected there was a sense of probably anger and mistrust and wiki leaks and julian a songe conspired with a part of our russian Intelligence Unit to hack the Democratic National committee and released emails related to the Hillary Clinton president ial campaign and so today that is what bringing to justice looks like in the United States. During the 2016 president ial Campaign Donald trump tweeted i love wiki leaks so does the u. S. Government under President Trump still support we can fix. Kenneth weinstein as a republican strategist with close ties to leading republicans like former president george w. Bush and current Vice President mike pence its clear that wiki leaks has fallen out of favor. He was in the Ecuadorian Embassy of his own free will he could have been a chicken like snowden and run off to moscow or run off to some other 3rd country in the end he didnt do that he couldve gone to cuba he couldve gone to russia could have done it china god knows where you chose not to and yesterday the price and someday snowden will pay a price well beyond. His time in moscow i think its very important for our government to show that we have no patience for the kind of. Sokol whistleblowing activities of traders its natural that he should be extradited to the United States to have to face a court of law here certainly i think. Life without parole strikes me as a fair punishment but again i am neither judge nor jury and i think its up to the jury to decide and the judge to sentence. The former director of the cia and n. S. A. General Michael Hayden represents the position of the u. S. Intelligence services. We have a biblical phrase chiseled on the wall at cia headquarters you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free so its not surprising that the committee wants to wants to hear and so the view of people like me is that he is an enemy of the United States i would hope that if hes ever brought back in front of a committee it would be part of a package that he was bringing being brought back to the United States also to face what i think should be criminal charges. Since april 11th 2019 hearings have been ongoing at a court in westminster in london isaan supporters are demanding his release. And. The former ecuadorian consul to be done by as has also attended. To. Be notified julian that the charges against him justify his extradition. And ask him if you the pows it. Just about this you and he said yes. But the british are the closest allies of the us when its a matter of occupying other countries or starting wars. Invited by east is that its quite unlikely that the authorities will dare to deny the extradition request. Once he got on their cell theyre getting into their case with. Julian a son is being held in belmarsh prison which some have called britains guantanamo. Prison Jennifer Robinson is one of the attorneys who have been defending wiki leaks since 2010. Dollars to see if this is a renowned prison in this country. Or the high security aspect of it i dont say the days where they bring all the other terror suspects. Well at least now he has access to medical treatment but he circumstances being quite different. He has a lot of time into his cell line. 6 days in a cell hes right its been very difficult. In sweden the Sexual Assault charges could be reopened the u. S. Has filed 18 charges against the sons including conspiracy hacking and espionage. If convicted he could face a sentence of up to 175 years in prison. If he committed this fate as he tried to get our classified documents he put them out there in the Public People like healthy manning and Edward Snowden and julian assigned to me they. They are theyve gone about things in different ways i mean join a songe provided the platform Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning provided the information for that platform right but i think one of the questions that is the most important here is what was a different way to share that information and how can we fix that Going Forward to ensure that. Massive leaks like this dont happen again. Should emma songs make to mean this isnt his spine his the publisher he publishes information that he receives information in the Public Interest it is all from i think you saw in the plus the distinction between a spy and a publisher has been respected. At the phone someplace but now this distinction is becoming blurred. When they say fast. If Julian Assange just extradited to the United States what will happen to wiki leaks will the organization that is change the course of recent history be silenced. And justice and freedom the 1st words of the german national. 3 central values that the foundation of this country. These values developed to. Use it to live by and defend the principles of unity justice and freedom and i work every day. Our journey. Starts october 21st d. W. That. Oh. This is g. W. 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