"I Think It #39;s Embarrassing" - Julian Assange Responds To Obama #39;s "Big" NSA Reforms Speech
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"I Think It's Embarrassing" - Julian Assange Responds To Obama's "Big" NSA Reforms Speech - Video
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Julian Paul Assange (// -SAHNJ;[2][3] born 3 July 1971) is an Australian publisher[4][5] and journalist.[6][7] He is known as the editor-in-chief and founder of WikiLeaks,[4] which publishes submissions of secret information,[8]news leaks[9] and classified media from anonymous news sources and whistleblowers.[10]
Assange was a hacker as a teenager, then a computer programmer before becoming known for his work with WikiLeaks, initially started in 2006.[11] WikiLeaks became internationally well known in 2010 when it began to publish U.S. military and diplomatic documents with assistance from its partners in the news media. Chelsea Manning (then Bradley Manning) has since pled guilty to supplying the cables to WikiLeaks. U.S. Air Force documents reportedly state that military personnel who make contact with WikiLeaks or "WikiLeaks supporters" are at risk of being charged with "communicating with the enemy",[12] and the United States Department of Justice reportedly has considered prosecuting Assange for several offenses.[13] During the trial of Manning, military prosecutors presented evidence that they claim reveals that Manning and Assange collaborated to steal and publish U.S. military and diplomatic documents.[14]
Since November 2010, Assange has been subject to a European Arrest Warrant in response to a Swedish police request for questioning in relation to a sexual assault investigation. In June 2012, following final dismissal by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom of his appeal against enforcement of the European Arrest Warrant, Assange has failed to surrender to his bail, and has been treated by the UK authorities as having absconded. Since 19 June 2012, he has been inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has since been granted diplomatic asylum.[15][16] The British government intends to extradite Assange to Sweden under that arrest warrant once he leaves the embassy, which Assange says may result in his subsequent extradition to the United States to face charges over the diplomatic cables case.[15]
While on bail in England during 2012, Assange hosted a political talk show World Tomorrow which was broadcast on the RT TV channel.[17][18]
Assange was born in Townsville, Queensland[19][20] and is a sixth-generation Australian.[21] His mother, Christine Ann Assange (ne Hawkins),[19] was born in Sydney, New South Wales.[22]
His biological father, John Shipton, met Christine when she was 19, on their way to a Vietnam war rally in Sydney in 1970. The relationship ended amicably when she became pregnant.[23]
As a single mother with infant Julian, Christine moved to a cottage in Picnic Bay, Magnetic Island, Queensland. She married theatre director Richard Brett Assange when Julian was one year old.[24][25] The name Assange is an anglicised form of "Ah Sang", Cantonese Chinese for "Mr. Sang",[26][27][28] another name for Sun Tai Lee, a Chinese immigrant to Thursday Island, Queensland.[29][30][31]
In 1976, they returned to live on Magnetic Island, where they lived in Horseshoe Bay in an old abandoned pineapple farm.[32][33] Assange and his mother lived with his grandfather, Warren, a Sydney-born academic, and grandmother Norma in Lismore from the mid-1970s to the early-1980s.[34][35][36][37] During Assange's upbringing, Brett and Christine ran a touring theatre company. In the mid-1970s, Assange and his parents moved to North Lismore, New South Wales, and Assange attended Goolmangar Primary School in the nearby town of Goolmangar from 1979 to 1983.[38]
In 1979, his mother married "Leif Meynall or Leif Hamilton".[39] The couple had a son, but broke up in 1982 and engaged in a custody struggle for Assange's half-brother. His divorced mother travelled across Australia, taking both children into hiding for the next five years. Assange moved thirty times before he turned 14, attending many schools, including Townsville State High School, and sometimes being home-schooled.[24][33][40][41][42] In an interview conducted by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Assange stated that he had lived in 50 different towns and attended 37 different schools.[43] When questioned by Robert Manne, he clarified that the 37 schools he has attended include those he attended for only a single day. Manne reported a statement that Assange had been officially enrolled in 12 of those schools. He and his mother "by the time he was 16 or 17" lived in "a tiny cement bungalow in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, east of Melbourne", first in the town of "Emerald and then Tecoma", now in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne.[44][45]
In 1987, after turning 16, Assange began hacking under the name "Mendax" (derived from a phrase of Horace: "splendide mendax", or "nobly untruthful").[24] He and two other hackers joined to form a group they named the International Subversives. Assange wrote down the early rules of the subculture: "Don't damage computer systems you break into (including crashing them); don't change the information in those systems (except for altering logs to cover your tracks); and share information."[24] The Personal Democracy Forum said he was "Australia's most famous ethical computer hacker".[46]
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sharply criticized President Barack Obamas proposed surveillance reforms Friday, calling them small and saying it is embarrassing for a head of state to go on like that for 45 minutes and say almost nothing.
Although those national whistle-blowers have forced this debate, this president has been dragged, kicking and screaming to todays address. He is being very reluctant to make any concrete reforms, Assange told CNN. And unfortunately, today we also see very few concrete reforms.
During the interview, Assange homed in on the U.S Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which oversees surveillance warrants and came under heightened public scrutiny following leaks last year by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.
The big problem with the FISA court is the creation of secret judge-made law that is capable of reinterpreting anything that Congress passes in order to make it acceptable for the NSA to engage in bulk collection activity, Assange said.
Obama on Friday said the administration would be instating a public advocate position on the FISA court, a reform over which Assange also expressed skepticism.
A public advocate constantly in the FISA Court in a secret manner is unlikely to produce a decent result. That said, of course, it is a small advance, he said. We have to see whether being implemented, who would be this public advocate.
Assange also defended National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, saying that the reforms proposed by the administration would not have come about without his actions.
Its clear that the president would not be speaking today were it not for the actions of Edward Snowden, Assange told CNN.
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At a major speech outlining revisions to U.S. intelligence operations, Barack Obama announced a number of new procedures for the NSA, including an end to the phone tapping of world allies.
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange has dismissed President Barack Obama's proposals to curb the reach of the National Security Agency (NSA), saying they would change very little.
In a speech intended to quell the furore over surveillance programs leaked by Edward Snowden, Obama said spy taps on friendly world leaders would be halted while foreigners caught in US data mining would be given new protections.
Obama, however, argued that bulk data collection must be allowed to continue in order to protect America from terrorists.
Assange described Obama's speech as "embarrassing'', telling CNN in an interview from London that the proposals would have little effect.
Obama had been "dragged, kicking and screaming'' into making Friday's comments, only because of revelations from Snowden and other intelligence leakers before him, Assange said on Friday.
President Barack Obama has ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court's permission before accessing phone records.Picture: AP
"It's embarrassing for a head of state to go on like that for 45 minutes and say almost nothing,'' Assange told CNN.
"He is being very reluctant to make any concrete reforms. And unfortunately today we also see very few concrete reforms.''
Assange was sceptical that a move obliging NSA agents to seek endorsement from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA), before accessing data on a specific target would be effective.
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President Obama laid out some reforms for NSA surveillance programs today, but not everyone was impressed by it. Julian Assange reacted to Obamas speech on CNN and said that the president was dragged kicking and screaming into this debate in the first place, remarking that its embarrassing for a head of state to go on for 45 minutes like that and say almost nothing.
Assange insisted that Obama would not have made that speech today were it not for the actions of Edward Snowden, yet the reforms he proposed are rather weak and simply deferrals to Congress and review boards. He went off on the secrecy of the FISA court and expressed his dismay with the lack of any meaningful protection for U.S. business.
But Assange then charged, We heard a lot of lies in this speech by Obama. As an example, he pointed to the president saying there has been no abuse by the NSA, which has already been demonstrated to be incorrect.
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Julian Assange: ‘We Heard a Lot of Lies in This Speech by Obama’
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Saturday criticised US President Barack Obamas proposal to limit the controversial surveillance programme, saying his plan is not concrete and will not change much.
In a bid to allay global outrage after the leak of the US snooping programme, Mr. Obama on Friday put an end to the surveillance of foreign leaders of friendly nations.
He also announced several proposals to change how the agency collects surveillance on Americans and foreign governments.
Describing the speech as embarrassing, Mr. Assange said, We heard a lot of lies here in this speech by Obama.
He said it is clear that Mr. Obama would not have unveiled his new spying reforms had it not been for leaks by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden other whistleblowers.
Those national whistleblowers have forced this debate, this president has been dragged, kicking and screaming, to todays address. He has been very reluctant to make any concrete reforms, and, unfortunately, today, we also see very few concrete reforms.
What we see is kicking off the ball into the congressional grass, kicking it off into panels of lawyers that he will report - that he will instruct to report back at some stage in the future, Mr. Assange said.
The FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) court, which he named as the court that will review some of this process, is known to be the most secret captive court in the United States thats producing secret judge - made law, he alleged.
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