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" It raises questions about the natural instincts of Clinton that, when confronted with a serious domestic political scandal, she tries to blame the Russians, blame the Chinese, et cetera. "

Julian Assange

Serious

Blame

Political

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" I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination. "

" Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States. "

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" Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. "

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" The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance. "

" I am an Australian citizen, and I miss my country a great deal. "

Julian Assange

Deal

Country

" WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical. "

" My family has had to move and change their name and have been subject to threats from right wing blogs calling for my son, for example, to be killed to get at me. "

Julian Assange

Change

Family

" We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks. "

" What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes. "

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" I had had a lot of experience in bringing the Internet to Australia, and I saw that knowledge in the hands of people achieves reform. "