[Peace-discuss] Craig Murray and George Galloway on Julian Assange

[J.B. Nicholson]

Craig Murray and George Galloway on Julian Assange
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BoYQDU5nuhQ

That interview was part of the following:

Mother of All Talk Shows #161 with George Galloway
https://youtube.com/watch?v=G-STnM6TyDE

Some of the highlights of that interview:

- Julian Assange now gets to appeal to the High Court on important 
issues including freedom of speech, freedom of journalists to publish, 
the US spying on every room of the Ecuadorian embassy (literally all of 
Assange's visitors were spied on including Assange's discussion with his 
lawyers which is usually grounds for case dismissal), and political 
extradition.

- talking about what the US calls the "New York Times problem" of not 
holding the NYT (and other publishers) to the same standard as Assange 
is being held to for publishing the same war logs.

- The Guardian ran the war logs information from WikiLeaks before 
WikiLeaks published it -- while WikiLeaks was reviewing and redacting 
names to prevent people mentioned by name from coming to harm, The 
Guardian ran information from those documents first. The Guardian faces 
no prosecution. WikiLeaks made no money from publishing this but The 
Guardian did.

- Two Guardian journalists -- Luke Harding & David Leigh -- published 
the password to get the unredacted information as a chapter heading in a 
book. This was published, Luke & Leigh claim, as a joke. They then 
claimed to be shocked when people figured out that they had published 
the password as a chapter heading.

-J