From Prison, Assange Expresses Regret That WikiLeaks Can No Longer Expose War Crimes
WikiLeaks founder says whistleblowers are no longer as willing to risk the consequences of being caught sharing documents with the media organization
Support independent journalism on press freedom, whistleblowers, and government secrecy. Become a subscriber of The Dissenter today.
Journalist Charles Glass visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at His Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh in London, where he has been jailed for over four and a half years as the United States government pursues extradition.
In a report for The Nation on his prison visit, Glass asked Assange about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Israel’s assault and siege on Gaza. “Now is an important time for whistleblowers to send documents to WikiLeaks.”
However, Assange shared his regret that “WikiLeaks is no longer able to expose war crimes and corruption as in the past.” He believes that the U.S. government’s war on WikiLeaks has had a considerable impact in convincing whistleblowers to steer clear of submitting documents to the organization. Assange is also afraid that “other media outlets are not filling the vacuum.”
*Read the full article at The Dissenter.
Indeed the attack on Assange and Wikileaks was to silence and stop others rising up in self actualised power!
This just goes to show that American Justice is anything but Justice! This seems more like Revenge and Retribution against decent " Law abiding" citizens. America now appears to be the self appointed War merchant oops sorry "World custodian of Justice, the Enforcers" Sadly they have Caused or have had a hand in almost Every Conflict since American independence! Not one year has America not been involved in a war or conflict whether directly or by Proxy as it is with Israel and Ukraine, Can we not just Stop all of this ? If the money spent on War and false propaganda were to be spent on the Country ,would there be any Poverty or Homeless people?
There probably would still be Poverty because of people like the UK Government Taking filling their own and their friends pockets ( as well as their big business Donors) or at least that appears to be the case.