Inside the Beltway: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange meets Ron Paul

Yes, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange still has asylum inside the Embassy of Ecuador in London, where he has resided for more than a year. That hasnt stopped him from staging news conferences, issuing statements and making broadcast appearances so many that Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa reportedly has sent Mr. Assange a letter requesting that he stop using the embassy as a backdrop while making fun of politicians in Australia, the whistleblowing activists home turf. He has founded his own political party and is running for office in Australia himself.

There must be some asylum cachet at work here. Along with being named a juror in an international film festival this week, Mr. Assange also appeared with former Texas lawmaker and presidential hopeful Ron Paul on the, uh, Ron Paul Channel, an online subscription-based news network that went live a few weeks ago. Via split screen in a two-part series, the pair discusses freedom of information issues, investigative journalism, government accountability and officials who pursue whistleblowers while war criminals go unpunished.

This interview gives our subscribers an opportunity to see unfiltered and honest dialogue between two leaders in the freedom of information movement, a spokesman tells Inside the Beltway. They discuss ideas that are rarely brought up by the mainstream media. Ron Pauls interview with Julian Assange is the type of conversation that folks come to the Ron Paul Channel to hear.

The content including a petition to President Obama to Stay out of Syria that drew 50,000 signature in three days puts the channel out front, he says.

And landing Mr. Assange as a guest?

Ron Paul and Julian Assange were eager to speak with each other. We are very pleased with the how the interview came together, the spokesman concludes.

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