The Moral Complexities of Working With Julian Assange

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 15 April 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Many have considered Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, to be a hero of the free speech movement and a partner to journalists. He also came to be seen as a threat to national security. Then, he helped Russia interfere in a United States election. And now, he has been arrested. Our colleague tells us about the moral complexities of working with Mr. Assange. Guest: Scott Shane, who covers national security for The New York Times, has been following Mr. Assange’s decade-long saga. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:25.6	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Weber.
0:32.6	This is The Daily.
0:39.6	Today, first, he was seen as a hero of the free speech movement.
0:44.4	Increasingly, he came to be seen as a threat to national security.
0:48.6	Then, he helped Russia interfere in a US election.
0:53.6	Now, he's been arrested.
0:56.2	Scotch Shink on the moral complexities of Julian Assange.
1:00.6	It's Monday, April 15.
1:08.6	Scot, tell us what happened in London on Thursday.
1:11.8	So, a large squad of police showed up at the Embassy of Ecuador, where Julian Assange
1:19.2	has been holed up for seven years, not leaving the building.
1:24.4	The Ecuadorian authorities got a little sick of him.
1:31.1	He would skateboard and they complained about his skateboarding, the noise, the damage
1:36.1	was going to the building.
1:37.1	He would skateboard inside the embassy?
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