
Annoncering


Unfortunately, Assange handled himself with neither the humility nor grace required of the moment. But that's a lot to ask of a human. When you are suddenly surrounded by 20 camera crews, your brain gets weird on you. Remember the Kony 2012 filmmaker masturbating in the middle of the street, babbling crazy shit?
Not a pretty sight, but no less cringeworthy than Assange’s icky anti-Semitic brain-fart attacks on The Guardian’s stellar investigative reporter, David Leigh. (Without Leigh, the WikiLeaks-Manning documents would have never seen the light of day.)
I am sorry I shot my spit-wads at Assange for his idiocies – it only encouraged the jackals. Trying to support Manning, I joined in the pissing on Julian, and thereby I undermined Manning’s own messenger.
And for that reason, this apologia will hopefully be my last word, or anyone's, on the poor Julian, in the basement of the Ecuadorian embassy with nothing left but a silk scarf and a certain, if short, prison sentence. Even if Assange is guilty of the crime, the punishment in store is not for his bedtime antics but for his sincere attempt to help soldier Bradley Manning reveal to Americans the facts about our deadly rulers.
Greg Palast investigated BP PLC and the Deepwater Horizon disaster for Channel 4’s Dispatches based, in part, on the revelations in the WikiLeaks US State Department confidential files.Follow Greg on Twitter: @Greg_PalastPreviously - How Bradley Manning Could Have Prevented the Deepwater Horizon Explosion