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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.44,0:00:06.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And for more on Assanges roller coster year I'm joined by Paul Craig Roberts, former Reagan administration official.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.20,0:00:12.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hey there Paul, you know we're looking back at the past year. As Julian Assange has really gone from
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.72,0:00:18.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,celebrity and now to alleged criminal, what have been your observations about this man,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.09,0:00:20.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who's really become quite a character on the American landscape?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.90,0:00:30.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, he's a great threat, because he does publish documents from the government which reveals
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.35,0:00:37.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how sordid the government is. It's not like a pundit or commentator speaking about the government,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.57,0:00:45.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's the governments own documents revealing its sordid behavior. So he is very much a threat, and not
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.67,0:00:50.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just to the American government, but to the British government, to any number of governments.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.13,0:00:59.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so there is a consorted effort to nail him, to shut him up. In my opinion, if legal attempt,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.07,0:01:06.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I'm certain the United States government is behind, if this fails he'll simply be assassinated
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.43,0:01:09.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by a CIA assassination team.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.01,0:01:16.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's common practice for the CIA to do that, it's nothing unusual about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.32,0:01:23.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Congress had many hearings in the mid 70s, and it's in the public record that they're always
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.57,0:01:25.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,assassinating people.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.40,0:01:28.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I guess you like to think, as an American, that you don't live in a country where
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.24,0:01:31.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that goes on, but perhaps that's a little ignorant, but..
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.46,0:01:34.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I try to be realistic and aware.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.23,0:01:38.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanna move on now, this ruling today that came down in the British court, not a surprise really to
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.80,0:01:45.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most people. He plans to appeal according to his lawyers, but a lot of people say that the US might try
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.35,0:01:49.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get in there now, that they might try to request his extradition to the United States.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.67,0:01:55.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can this happen? There's not even been any charges filed against him. These charges in Sweden are
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.36,0:02:01.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sort of, you know. Sexual assault, yes, but they're with consenting partners who sort of have changed
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.39,0:02:07.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their stories a little. I wonder what you think about the attempt that could happen to get him to the
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.36,0:02:10.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,United States where there's not even charges against him yet?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.89,0:02:18.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I think that's the purpose of all this. You see, the fact of the matter is that the Swedish prosecutors
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.67,0:02:24.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,did look in to the charges, and they dismissed them as not credible. And of course one reason it's not
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.78,0:02:30.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,credible is that both of the women who seduced him are all lying, bragging about their conquests.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.100,0:02:37.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They had e-mails, there's some Twitter and Facebook, I believe, and many of their friends reported
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.08,0:02:46.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the two women where bragging that they had seduced Julian Assange. So what his real mistake was
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.16,0:02:56.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was getting in bed with two women he didn't know. [chuckle] Somebody who is a boat rocker like him can't
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.36,0:03:06.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,possibly let that happen, because it's now cooked him, you see. And the prosecutor which reopened the case,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.64,0:03:14.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no one knows really why, because the charges are merely misdemeanors. He's not accused of rape, despite
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.56,0:03:22.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the headlines. He's accused, after the event, by the two women of having sex with them in ways that
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.69,0:03:25.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they didn't want, or something to that effect.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.59,0:03:29.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah. One of them said she was asleep, and an other says she was hoping he would be wearing a condom
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.91,0:03:34.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he wasn't. But let's move away from the case itself and talk about this attempt to paint him as a rapist.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.99,0:03:42.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is really taking a lot of focus off of WikiLeaks itself, in this attempt by various people,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.10,0:03:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,various governments to paint him as sort of a villain. Talk about that.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.00,0:03:54.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well this is common practice. When you have someone you regard as dangerous to you, and you
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.80,0:04:00.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't really have a case against them, you slander them. And this is the way the United States Department
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.95,0:04:12.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Justice generally works. It produces, it uses the media to slander the victim so that the victim is
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.19,0:04:20.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,guilty before he ever gets into a court. So in some sense they would achieve their purpose, even if he
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.41,0:04:29.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wins the appeal, because he is now slandered. And the real questions will not get investigated. You see,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.17,0:04:36.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what really needs to be investigated is why did this prosecutor reopen the case the Swedish prosecutors
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.53,0:04:42.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had already closed? Because there was no new evidence. [chuckles] In fact, the evidence that came out
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.96,0:04:50.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really didn't support the claims of the two women. And the other question is how do you extradite somebody
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.71,0:04:59.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when there's no crime? What the Swedish prosecutor is demanding is extradition so that she can interview him.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.21,0:05:01.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She could do that here
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.26,0:05:04.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The bottom line here seems to be, you know, where there's a will, there's a way.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.67,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sorry, we are out of time. Paul Craig Roberts, former Reagan administration official.