Julian Assange's fiancée Stella Moris discusses CIA threats and US extradition dangers

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🗓️ 6 November 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton speak with Stella Moris, the fiancée of imprisoned WikiLeaks journalist Julian Assange, about CIA threats, the appeal hearings in the US extradition case, and how this scandal threatens freedom of the press around the world.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to moderate rebels. And we have a really important guest today,
0:10.0	Stella Morris, the fiance of political prisoner and journalist and publisher Julian Assange.
0:17.4	To address the continued U.S. and UK.K.'s political persecution of Julian Assange, who is still held in maximum security confines at the Belmarsh prison and who recently had some very significant hearings.
0:34.1	The Biden administration is still seeking the extradition of Julian Assange. Attorney General
0:39.4	Merrick Garland will not turn back on this case, even though it has completely fallen apart.
0:45.9	And so we're going to address the details of the collapse of this case and the continued
0:53.8	sadism of the U.S. and UK establishment against the wishes of pretty much every human rights organization in the world, the UN, and every press freedom organization we can think of.
1:05.9	So Stella Morris, welcome to moderate rebels. It's great to see you. How are you doing? Thanks, Max. Well, I'm holding up, I guess.
1:16.9	Under some very difficult circumstances, I'm sure, but I feel a sense of hope here. I don't know if that's overly optimistic.
1:28.8	I'm definitely not an optimist, but I feel some hope for Julian's freedom.
1:33.3	Am I wrong to feel that way?
1:36.2	Well, I just think that the case, as you said, has fallen apart.
1:41.0	And now we just see this, Julian's brother called it as a zombie case.
1:47.0	It's in the legal process, so it just trundles along through the courts, but it has no
1:54.5	substance to it. And it never did. In fact, the US took an unprecedented move under the Trump administration
2:02.6	to use the Espionage Act for the first time against a publisher for publishing true information to the public.
2:10.6	And they're doing it under the rubric of the Espionage Act, but he's not actually accused of espionage as we usually understand it
2:19.5	espionage is when you secretly take government information and channel it to a foreign power
2:29.4	in secret to benefit that power jul Julian did the opposite.
2:35.0	He received information from a journalistic source,
2:38.7	and he published it to the public.
2:41.6	And this was important information,
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