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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 1385 The Truth About Whistleblower Julian Assange

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London last Thursday. The media and political sources who despise him are doing their best to make his activities sound nefarious and disreputable. But when Assange's activity is described correctly and precisely, it suddenly appears no different from what any journalist does, in terms of protecting his source's anonymity. Cassandra Fairbanks of The Gateway Pundit joins me for some background.

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Show notes for Ep. 1385

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The Tom Woods Show, episode 1385.

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0:43.4

last Thursday, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, was arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy

0:50.5

in London, and this is what everybody in his right mind has been talking about ever since.

0:57.8

So I managed to get Cassandra Fairbanks on the program via Skype so we could talk about what it all

1:04.2

means and what the background is and just have a good briefing on the subject because she has

1:09.8

been following Julian Assange and all the

1:13.3

issues related to him and WikiLeaks for quite some time. And she's written quite a bit about it

1:18.8

as well over at the Gateway Pundit. So I'm going to link to her archive as well as her Twitter

1:25.1

over at tomwoods.com slash 1385. You should certainly follow her for developments

1:31.4

in this particular case. Now, I do want to point out that, you know, as sometimes happens with Skype,

1:37.6

we have a few audio glitches here and there. We did our best to patch them up for you,

1:41.8

but you won't have any difficulty following the conversation,

1:44.4

that's for sure. So very, very important that we get this right. And this is one of these

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areas where establishment left and right can't kiss and make up fast enough. They are delighted

1:56.7

at the arrest of Assange. This is the way establishment left and right behave. Meanwhile, we have

2:03.5

the good guys. We have some good guys on the right. We have most libertarians, I'd say almost all

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