How self-imposed exile changed Julian Assange:
Watching the video of his arrest earlier, I was shocked to see how much Assange has aged. His tall frame bent over by the police dragging him out. He looked desperate and cornered. He was not the confident, daring -- and often calculating -- transparency activistThe last time I saw Assange was just after he claimed asylum in the embassy, nearly seven years ago. He was in good health then and fairly optimistic that he could still run WikiLeaks from the embassy.
Assange had always maintained that he was not afraid of facing allegations of sexual assault in Sweden, which is what the original arrest warrant was for. He wasthat it was a ploy -- he called it once a"honey trap" -- to get him extradited to the US on charges of espionage. The judge appeared to dispute this and called the Australian WikiLeaks founder a “narcissist who cannot get beyond his own selfish interest.”
The book, according to Amazon, details"the historical events that led to the establishment of the massive military-industrial-security complex and the political culture that gave us the 'Imperial Presidency.'” “The indictment alleges that in March 2010, Assange engaged in a conspiracy with Chelsea Manning, a former intelligence analyst in the US Army,
Manning served about seven years in prison for her disclosure of US military and diplomatic secrets toBut Manning was jailed again in early March of this year, when a judge held her in contempt for refusing to testify before a grand jury about those disclosures.This post has been updated to correct the date the indictment was signed.May addresses the House on Thursday.
His lawyers will be Liam Walker and Ben Cooper , the law firm Doughty Street Chambers tweeted. Jennifer Robinson will also appear with him, they said.
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