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CHIMO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-10 08:00 PM
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Julian Assange says WikiLeaks wants to expose China and Russia as much as US
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange wanted to expose China's and Russia's secrets as much as those of the US, and believes Hillary Clinton should resign if she ordered diplomats to engage in espionage.

" should resign if it could be shown that she was responsible for ordering US diplomatic figures to engage in espionage of UN activities, in violation of the international covenants to which the US signed up," he said in an interview with Time magazine, published yesterday following the leak of secret US diplomatic cables that have caused huge embarrassment for the country.

Assange gave the interview via Skype from an undisclosed location after a warrant was issued by Interpol following rape allegations in Sweden, which his lawyer said amounted to persecution and a smear campaign.

While Assange has been accused by former members of the WikiLeaks project of obsessively focusing on the US, he said countries with less transparency, such as China and Russia, had the most potential to be reformed by whistleblowers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/02/julian-assange-wikileaks-china-russia
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somone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-10 08:04 PM
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1. Whistleblowers don't live long in China and Russia
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stray cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-10 08:49 PM
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2. Except that he only has access to US conversations
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FarLeftRage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-10 09:24 PM
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3. Bring it on!
I'd love to see that.
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