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Undated: Julian Paul Assange (born Julian Paul Hawkins; 3 July 1971) is an Australian computer programmer, a grantee of political asylum, a fugitive from a British arrest warrant for breaching bail conditions, and the editor of WikiLeaks.[2] Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006, and came to international attention in 2010, when WikiLeaks published a series of leaks provided by Chelsea Manning. These leaks included the Collateral Murder video (April 2010),[3][4] the Afghanistan war logs (July 2010), the Iraq war logs (October 2010), and CableGate (November 2010). Following the 2010 leaks, the federal government of the United States launched a criminal investigation into WikiLeaks and asked allied nations for assistance.[5]
During the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries, WikiLeaks hosted emails sent or received by candidate Hillary Clinton from her private email server when she was Secretary of State.[11] After the Democratic Party, along with cybersecurity experts, claimed that Russian intelligence had hacked Clinton campaign-related e-mails and leaked them to WikiLeaks, Assange said Clinton was causing "hysteria about Russia".[12][13] He consistently denied any connection to or cooperation with Russia in relation to the leaks.[14][15][16]
Several parties have pointed out a strong pro-Russian bias in Assange's public comments and stated that the materials released by WikiLeaks "never seem sable to leak anything damaging to the interests of the Russian".[282][283] Assange's claim that the Guccifer 2.0 emails were not provided to WikiLeaks by the GRU has led to further accusations that he is working in line with Russian propaganda.[284]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#2016_US_presidential_election
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August 17: Why Ecuador May Have Chosen to Offer Asylum to Assange
https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/230787-why-ecuador-may-have-chosen-offer-asylum-assange
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June 1: Donald Trump’s white nationalist campaign attracted anti-immigrant, pro-Russia politicians from across Europe. In particular “Brexit” leader Nigel Farage, the proudly racist and sexist former head of the nationalist UK Independence Party, made an unprecedented trans-Atlantic push for Trump. Farage attended the Republican convention, did media appearances to support Trump, joined in raising the rabble at Trump rallies, and even defended Trump’s ugly Access Hollywood statements as just the bragging of an “alpha male.” Farage is also an admirer of Trump adviser Steve Bannon, with a Breitbart-friendly relationship that extends back at least three years. And now Trump and Farage have something else in common:
Nigel Farage is a “person of interest” in the US counter-intelligence investigation that is looking into possible collusion between the Kremlin and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the Guardian has been told.
Farage says he’s never even been to Russia … though he refuses to say if he’s received payment from RT or other Russian state media. Farage has met with Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, with Assange-friendly whackadoodle Roger Stone, and seems to have just incidentally been involved with a lot of people whose names keep showing up on the FBI radar.
“He’s right in the middle of these relationships. He turns up over and over again. There’s a lot of attention being paid to him.”
Farage has some recent FBI experience. In July, the FBI nabbed Farage’s top aide, for laundering drug money through the dark net.
The aide, George Cottrell, previously ran the UKIP offices as well as Farage’s personal blog. He was arrested by the FBI when Farage and Cottrell came to the US for the Republican Convention. Cottrell was later found guilty of wire fraud for offering to help criminals launder funds.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/6/1/1667871/-Nigel-Farage-joins-other-Trump-associates-as-person-of-interest-in-FBI-investigation
August 21: Julian Assange, a Man Without a Country ... From his tiny sanctum in London, the founder of WikiLeaks has interfered with the world’s most powerful institutions.
The Ecuadorian Embassy in London is situated at the end of a wide brick lane, next to the Harrods department store, in Knightsbridge. Sometimes plainclothes police officers, or vans with tinted windows, can be found outside the building. Sometimes there are throngs of people around it. Sometimes there is virtually no one, which was the case in June, 2012, when Julian Assange, the publisher of WikiLeaks, arrived, disguised as a motorcycle courier, to seek political asylum. In the five years since then, he has not set foot beyond the Embassy. Nonetheless, he has become a global influence, proving that with simple digital tools a single person can craft a new kind of power—a distributed, transnational power, which functions outside norms of state sovereignty that have held for centuries. Encouraged by millions of supporters, Assange has interfered with the world’s largest institutions. His releases have helped fuel democratic uprisings—notably in Tunisia, where a revolution sparked the Arab Spring—and they have been submitted as evidence in human-rights cases around the world. At the same time, Assange’s methodology and his motivations have increasingly come under suspicion. During the Presidential election last year, he published tens of thousands of hacked e-mails written by Democratic operatives, releasing them at pivotal moments in the campaign. They provoked strikingly disparate receptions. “I love WikiLeaks,” Donald Trump declared, in exultant gratitude. After the election, Hillary Clinton argued that the releases had been instrumental in keeping her from the Oval Office.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/julian-assange-a-man-without-a-country
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May 15: How Julian Assange became an unwelcome guest in Ecuador's embassy
He has been in the Knightsbridge building for six years, but his departure looks ever more likely
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/15/julian-assange-ecuador-london-embassy-how-he-became-unwelcome-guest
October 16: Julian Assange ordered by Ecuador to curb speech, clean bathroom, look after cat if he wants internet
In a nine-page memo, published by Ecuadorean website Codigo Vidrio, the WikiLeaks founder is prohibited from "interfering in the internal affairs of other states" or from activities "that could prejudice Ecuador's good relations with other states".
Mr Assange, who was granted asylum in the Ecuadorean embassy in London in 2012, was also told in the memo his pet cat would be confiscated and taken to an animal shelter if he did not look after it.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-16/ecuador-asks-julian-assange-to-curb-speech-look-after-cat/10382992
November 16: Court Filing Suggests Prosecutors Are Preparing Charges Against Julian Assange
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/16/668528630/court-filing-suggests-prosecutors-may-be-preparing-charges-against-julian-assang
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December 6: Ecuador’s president has ramped up pressure on Julian Assange to leave his country’s embassy in London, saying that Britain had provided sufficient guarantees that the WikiLeaks founder won’t be extradited to face the death penalty abroad.
Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy since 2012, when he was granted asylum while facing allegations of sex crimes in Sweden that he said were a guise to extradite him to the U.S.
But his relations with his hosts have soured to the point that Moreno earlier this year cut off his access to the internet, purportedly for violating the terms of his asylum by speaking out on political matters.
Assange in turn sued, saying his rights as an Ecuadorian – he was granted citizenship last year as part of an apparent attempt to name him a diplomat and ferry him to Russia – were being violated.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/12/06/ecuador-uk-guarantees-assange-leave-embassy/2229390002/
December 6: Julian Assange rejects UK-Ecuador deal for him to leave the embassy
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/06/julian-assange-rejects-uk-ecuador-deal-leave-embassy/
December 22: UN calls on British authorities to allow Assange to leave Ecuadorian Embassy
A United Nations (U.N.) human rights group on Friday called for United Kingdom authorities to allow WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to leave the Ecuadorian Embassy without fear of being arrested or extradited.
The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention doubled down on its 2016 assertion that Assange had been de facto unlawfully held without charge in the embassy in London, where he has remained for more than six years.
Assange initially took asylum to preclude being extradited to Sweden, Reuters reported. Swedish authorities sought to question Assange in connection with a sexual assault investigation that was ultimately dropped.
The United Kingdom has said Assange will be arrested for skipping bail if he departs the embassy. Assange, who has denied the Swedish allegations, has said that the charge was part of a scheme to take him to the U.S., where prosecutors are preparing a criminal case against him for leaking thousands of classified U.S. government documents, Reuters noted.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/human-rights/422587-un-calls-on-british-authorities-to-allow-assange-to-leave
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January 6: WikiLeaks tells reporters 140 things not to say about Julian Assange
The Australian set up WikiLeaks as a channel for publishing confidential information from anonymous sources. He is a hero to some for exposing what supporters cast as government abuse of power and for championing free speech, but to others he is a rebel who has undermined the security of the United States.
WikiLeaks angered Washington by publishing hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables that laid bare often highly critical U.S. appraisals of world leaders from Russian President Vladimir Putin to members of the Saudi royal family.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-ecuador-assange/wikileaks-tells-reporters-140-things-not-to-say-about-julian-assange-idUSKCN1P00NN
January 7: WikiLeaks' Assange issues official denial of Trump election contacts
WikiLeaks director Julian Assange said on Monday that his anti-secrecy organization never provided election information to Donald Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone or to Jerome Corsi, a conservative author and conspiracy advocate.
Both Mr. Stone and Mr. Corsi have taken to TV and social media to proclaim their innocence as Mr. Muller [sic] investigates them in his Trump-Russia collusion probe.
The suspicion is that both got information from Wikileaks before it dispensed emails from Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, beginning Oct. 7, 2016.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/7/julian-assange-wikileaks-never-provided-election-i/
January 23: Julian Assange launches legal challenge against Trump administration
WikiLeaks founder’s lawyers file urgent application in attempt to prevent extradition to US
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/jan/23/julian-assange-launches-legal-challenge-against-trump-administration-extradition
January 23: U.S. ramping up probe against Julian Assange, WikiLeaks says
Federal prosecutors have formally approached people in the U.S., Germany and Iceland and pressed them to testify against Assange, according to WikiLeaks.
American federal prosecutors have been pressing witnesses in the U.S. and abroad to testify against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, WikiLeaks says, offering further evidence that the Justice Department is building a criminal case against the man who leaked Democratic emails hacked by the Russians in the 2016 election.
In a new submission to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, based in Washington, WikiLeaks is urging the Justice Department to unseal the charges that appear to have been secretly filed against Assange in the Eastern District of Virginia. A mistake in a Justice Department court filing in November inadvertently suggested the existence of those charges.
The statement also suggests that the U.S. has been working with Ecuador to monitor Assange in his residence in exile at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, an assertion that former intelligence officials say is plausible. In 2017, then-CIA director Mike Pompeo declared WikiLeaks a "hostile intelligence service."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/u-s-ramping-probe-against-julian-assange-wikileaks-says-n961661
January 26: How Stone's indictment links him to Julian Assange
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/01/26/roger-stone-julian-assange-wikileaks-black-pkg-nr-vpx.cnn
April 11: Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
At Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday he was found guilty of failing to surrender to the court.
The UK will decide whether to extradite Assange, in response to allegations by the Department for Justice that he conspired with former US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to download classified databases.
The indictment against Assange, issued last year in the state of Virginia, alleges that he conspired in 2010 with Manning to access classified information on Department of Defense computers. He faces up to five years in jail.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47891737
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