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21 Aug, 2012

Daniel Ellsberg: I Congratulate Ecuador for Standing Up to British Empire

Daniel Ellsberg, the most famous whistleblower in the United States, praises Ecuador for granting political asylum to Julian Assange to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning over sex crime accusations. “I congratulate Ecuador, of course, for standing up to the British Empire here, for insisting that they are not a British colony, and acting as a sovereign state ought to act,” says Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, the secret history of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

via Daniel Ellsberg: I Congratulate Ecuador for Standing Up to British Empire to Protect Julian Assange.