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Assange warns of 'digital McCarthyism' - U.S. news - WikiLeaks in Security - msnbc.com msnbc.com
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Wednesday that former presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin were emblematic of an "idiot trying to make a name? with calls for the execution of whoever leaked secret U.S. documents to his organization. He said people calling for violence against him should be prosecuted for incitement to murder.
Assange also told msnbc cable television that the world was facing ?a new type of digital McCarthyism that is being pushed from Washington? in an attempt to quash his organization?s reporting, and he called an Army soldier suspected of helping WikiLeaks a "political prisoner."
Answering allegations by Vice President Joe Biden and others that WikiLeaks was a terrorist organization, Assange said that no one has "ever been physically harmed" by WikiLeaks' release of secret documents.
"Whoever the terrorists are here, it's not us," Assange told msnbc.
Assange said there had been calls by politicians and "shock jocks" on TV for his assassination and the kidnapping of his staff. He called it "the threat of violence in order to achieve a political end ... and that is the definition of terrorism."
Asked by msnbc's Cenk Uygur how he would respond to comments by Huckabee and Palin about his organization, Assange said: "It's just another idiot trying to make a name for himself."
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Wednesday that former presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin were emblematic of an "idiot trying to make a name? with calls for the execution of whoever leaked secret U.S. documents to his organization. He said people calling for violence against him should be prosecuted for incitement to murder.
Assange also told msnbc cable television that the world was facing ?a new type of digital McCarthyism that is being pushed from Washington? in an attempt to quash his organization?s reporting, and he called an Army soldier suspected of helping WikiLeaks a "political prisoner."
Answering allegations by Vice President Joe Biden and others that WikiLeaks was a terrorist organization, Assange said that no one has "ever been physically harmed" by WikiLeaks' release of secret documents.
"Whoever the terrorists are here, it's not us," Assange told msnbc.
Assange said there had been calls by politicians and "shock jocks" on TV for his assassination and the kidnapping of his staff. He called it "the threat of violence in order to achieve a political end ... and that is the definition of terrorism."
Asked by msnbc's Cenk Uygur how he would respond to comments by Huckabee and Palin about his organization, Assange said: "It's just another idiot trying to make a name for himself."
