Interview · moment 10 of 23
Julian Assange's Decade of Captivity
from #259 - Independence Day with Glenn Greenwald | The Tim Dillon Show · #259
4 min
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Greenwald describes visiting Assange in the embassy before his imprisonment, his physical and psychological deterioration from a decade without sunlight, and draws a parallel to his own past legal jeopardy over the Snowden and Brazil reporting.
- Julian Assange has been held hostage for 10 years and psychologically tortured, with no major media defending him.
- Last saw Julian in 2018 or 2019 at the embassy in London—he was lucid and in good spirits then.
- Assange hasn't been outside in 10 years, not even to walk around in the sun like prisoners in American jails get to do.
- Media defended Glenn Greenwald during Snowden reporting in 2013-2014 because he had one foot in their world at The Guardian.
- When Greenwald did investigative reporting in Brazil in 2019-2020, American media defended him against Bolsonaro's prosecution attempt.
- Julian Assange never had a foot in the media click, so they abandoned him entirely despite his case being a grave threat to press freedom.
- The same media that pranced around defending press freedom over Trump insulting Jim Acosta ignore the Assange indictment.
- Biden Administration's theory criminalizing Assange will criminalize investigative journalism if it succeeds.
- Brazil's far-right government used the same prosecutorial model against Greenwald that the US is now using against Assange.
Julian AssangeJoe BidenDonald TrumpEdward SnowdenJair BolsonaroNew York TimesDanzigThe GuardianThievery CorporationWolf BlitzerJim AcostaChuck Todd