Assange ambushes Australian Prime Minister on live TV- Asks if she should be tried for treason

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Source: The Register UK

Assange ambushes Australian Prime Minister on live TV

Asks if she should be tried for treason

By Dan Goodin in San Francisco • Get more from this author

Posted in Government, 15th March 2011 18:41 GMT


Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard denied supplying information about WikiLeaks staff to the US government after founder Julian Assange confronted her on live television and suggested she be tried for treason.

The ambush happened during an interview with the Australian leader aired live on that country's public network ABC. With no prior warning, the broadcaster showed a video of Assange asking a pointed question. Dressed in a suit and tie, he said his staff has uncovered evidence her government has exchanged information with foreign powers about Australian citizens who worked for WikiLeaks.

“So prime minister, my question to you is this: When will you come clean about precisely what information you have supplied to foreign powers about Australian citizens working or affiliated with WikiLeaks?” he asked. “And if you cannot give a full and frank answer to that question, should perhaps the Australian people consider charging you with treason?”

Read more: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/15/assange_ambushes_prime_minister/

[meegbear]

1. Oh SNAP!

[defendandprotect]

2. We have to bring down this national security state -- good for Assange -- !!

[DeSwiss]

6. Indeed. K&R - n/t

[lunatica]

3. Oops!

[abqmufc]

4. Thank you to the person who screened the call and allowed him on the air! n/t

[DFab420]

5. My reply would have been:

"That's for the courts to decide. Just like it is for them to decide whether you raped those two women or not. "


But that's because I'm snarky.

[SpiralHawk]

7. He needs to put the same question to xCommander AWOL (R)

for lying America into a Republicon Oil-Profits Crusade for no good reason whatsoever -- and costing us thousands of lives and injuries and trillions of dollars of squandered taxpayer money. Totally treasonous.

[pacalo]

8. For Assange's future reference, next time he gets the opportunity to ask that question

in front of an audience, ask the question this way:

"When will you come clean about precisely what information you or anyone in your administration have supplied to foreign powers about Australian citizens working or affiliated with WikiLeaks?”

Reply: "I'm totally clueless! I know nothing!"]

"How do you explain, then, how the U.S. obtained information on Australian citizens who worked on WikiLeaks? Your office would have been the U.S.'s contact for private information of Australian citizens, correct?"

"I don't know. It could have been a bank or..."

"I suggest you find out who supplied the information. I am an Australian citizen; you are my prime minister who should be looking out for my interests. I have a right to know who gave out private my private information, which is against privacy law."

[DRex]

9. Video here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x563617

[midnight]

10. She labeled Julian's Wikileaks illegal even though she had no evidence but rather he has engaged

in illegality because he did not pass her morals and merits threshold... I hope Julian releases information to clear this matter about exchange information.... She is as lovely as Palin and Bachmann...

[Violet_Crumble]

11. She used to be okay. The job's changed her...

I used to really admire her because she was a straight-talker who appeared to be LW compared to the centrist crap the ALP likes to serve to us. She's been a major disappointment as PM, imo, and an example of how power corrupts....

[Alamuti Lotus]

12. any chance of her catching actual heat for such nonsense as this?

[Violet_Crumble]

14. Not likely n/t

[Modern_Matthew]

13. It's becoming increasingly obvious that everyone of importance is bought and paid for. nt