FORMER ASSANGE PR AGENT TELLS ALL

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🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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FORMER ASSANGE PR AGENT TELLS ALL
Trevor Fitzgibbon, the PR agent behind Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, and Julian Assange, pulls the curtain back on what went on behind the scenes during the successful run of his PR firm, Fitzgibbon Media, and consequently his fall from grace, orchestrated by an agenda of what he declares is “so much worse than I believed it was.”

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0:00.0	Well, before there was Zach Voorhees, the Google whistleblower who were just speaking to,
0:05.9	there was Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning.
0:10.2	Remember them?
0:11.2	If you don't, take a look at this.
0:13.6	Julian Assange, champion of transparency, full criminal.
0:17.5	People calling Manning a whistleblower, others a traitor.
0:20.2	Arguably America's most wanted fugitive.
0:22.6	NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden.
0:25.6	No one wants to be a whistleblower.
0:27.6	This is something that's hard to do.
0:29.8	The public remains divided over Assange.
0:32.7	But in the eyes of the Pentagon, he's an enemy of the state and therefore a wanted man.
0:37.8	There are a lot of people that want him in prison.
0:40.2	A lot of very powerful people.
0:42.2	WikiLeaks has provoked the US government for more than a decade, leaking trobes of classified
0:47.8	documents and videos online.
0:50.0	Julian Assange showed real bravery in being willing to publish, frankly and fearlessly,
0:57.1	that video.
0:58.1	The 27-year-old had been wanted by British police since 2012, when he skipped bail and
1:03.1	sought asylum at the embassy to escape extradition to Sweden.
1:07.4	Bradley Manning said he had wanted to shine a light on government misconduct.
1:12.4	Prosecutors say he recklessly betrayed his uniform, leaking sensitive material in order
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