Daniel Ellsberg: I Congratulate Ecuador for Standing Up to British Empire to Protect Julian Assange

WHISTLEBLOWING - SURVEILLANCE, SHORT VIDEO CLIPS, 21 Aug 2012

Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez – Democracy NOW!

Daniel Ellsberg, the most famous whistleblower in the United States, praises Ecuador for granting political asylum to Julian Assange to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning over sex crime accusations. “I congratulate Ecuador of course for standing up to the British Empire here, for insisting that they are not a British colony, and acting as a sovereign state ought to act,” said Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, the secret history of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. On Thursday [16 Aug 2012], British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Assange would be arrested if he left the embassy, saying Britain is “under a binding obligation to extradite him to Sweden. “[Assange] has every reason to be wary that the real intent here is to whisk him away to America where it really hasn’t been made clear what might be waiting for him.”

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