The U.S. case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
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The Washington Post
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🗓️ 11 April 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post. |
| 0:06.0 | This is Cleveland, so with the Washington Post. |
| 0:11.0 | It's Ellen Nakashima with Washington Post. |
| 0:13.0 | This is Post Reports. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Martin Powers. |
| 0:19.0 | It's Thursday, April 11th. |
| 0:22.0 | Today, Julian Assange is arrested in London. |
| 0:26.0 | The Asian Americans overlooked in the affirmative action debate |
| 0:29.0 | and a historic opera performance. |
| 0:35.0 | This is journalism. |
| 0:37.0 | It's called conspiracy. |
| 0:39.0 | It's conspiracy to commit journalism. |
| 0:42.0 | So this has to end. |
| 0:44.0 | And we urge everybody to support Julian Assange |
| 0:48.0 | in fighting this extradition. |
| 0:53.0 | So Julian Assange is an Australian hacker who's the founder of WikiLeaks. |
| 0:59.0 | National Security Reporter Ellen Nakashima has been covering the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. |
| 1:05.0 | He founded the organization to expose secrets that help shine a light on abuses. |
| 1:15.0 | And he's gotten the secret and classified documents from sources all over the world. |
| 1:22.0 | Police have sought to arrest Assange for years. |
| 1:25.0 | Ever since he refused to cooperate with Swedish officials investigating him for sexual assault. |
| 1:31.0 | That investigation was closed in 2017. |
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