Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Calls on President Obama to End 'Witch Hunt'

wisradio.com ^ | August. 19, 2012

[Free ThinkerNY]

(LONDON) -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared Sunday for the first time since he took refuge in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, calling for the release of Bradley Manning, who is accused of leaking documents to the whistlebowling website, and urging President Obama to "do the right thing" and end the "witch-hunt" against WikiLeaks.

For the past two years, Assange, 41, has fought extradition efforts to send him to Sweden, where he faces questioning over alleged sexual assaults against two women. The Australian has said he fears Swedish authorities will hand him over to U.S. officials.

Ecuador granted Assange political asylum Thursday, but he has been threatened with arrest if he leaves the country's 10-room London embassy, where he has been holed up for the past two months.

Appearing on a balcony, Assange read a prepared statement to more than 200 supporters, reporters and dozens of British police.

"I ask President Obama to do the right thing. The United States must renounce its witch hunt against WikiLeaks," Assange said. "The United States must dissolve its FBI investigation. The United States must vow that it will not seek to prosecute our staff or our supporters."

Assange called Bradley Manning, a U.S. soldier who is accused of passing classified material to WikiLeaks, "one of the world's foremost political prisoners."

[wideawake]

Not to my knowledge. Nor have we. But he’s the kind of guy you like to watch to see who’s pulling his strings - my guess is ultimately the PRC.

[Reily]

Possibly but I think he is just a garden variety anarchist with a narcissist complex. A foreign intelligence service would need to pull many strings to get done what they needed done. Just feed his ego and he wrecks havoc on his own!

[teflon9]

Bingo! We have a winner. All Assange did was do the MSM’s job for it. If anyone is to blame, it’s that little degenerate Bradley Manning, not Assange. If the MSM wasn’t so cozy with the power elites and so afraid to offend them, we wouldn’t need people like Julian Assange.

[teflon9]

The “rape” was a classic honey trap. Assange was thinking with the wrong part of his body (he’s prone to this it seems) and got himself in trouble as a result.