Lynne Cheney, the daughter of Dick Cheney,
went on Fox and said,
"I’d really like to see President Obama
move to ask the government of Iceland to shut the website down.
I’d like to see him move to shut it down ourselves
if Iceland won’t do it.” Julian?
Yeah, a source of great delight
in Iceland, actually—that statement, I mean.
She is a not terribly liked individual.
Well, I shouldn’t say that, actually.
Her father is a not well liked individual.
And she seems to share the same politics and patronage,
networking, their extended friends and so on.
So, the Icelandic people are fierce and fiercely independent,
and I’m sure they’re not going to be cowered by Liz Cheney.
Right, that was Liz Cheney, Cheney’s daughter.
How are you protecting yourself at this point, Julian Assange?
Well, I would like to tell you all about it, Amy,
but, you know, that might not be wise.
However, there are countries, Western countries,
even countries in NATO,
that are strongly supportive of what we do politically.
And, for example, the UK has announced—
UK Parliament has announced two inquiries
into Afghanistan,
one on the civilian casualties
and the other on what is the exit strategy
and how to get out of it.
The Dutch government
just formally announced
its exit from Afghanistan.
And other governments around the world involved in the ISAF coalition have,
in bigger and small ways,
announced that they are trying
to do something about the revelations in this material.
And all of them
are taking note of what the United States’ attitude is,
which is instead of immediately saying
these revelations are a serious concern,
we never wanted to harm Afghan civilians or to bribe the media,
as an example of one of the revelations in there,
and we intend to launch an immediate investigation
to understand this and compensate those people accordingly
and change our procedures—
that’s what the rest of the world wants to hear.
That’s what Afghanistan, the people of Afghanistan want to hear.
But instead they heard
a personal attack on me and on our organization
and an announcement that they would be going after
the whistleblower or whistleblowers involved in this.
And now we see them living up to those words
and stalking around Boston,
and spying and harassing MIT graduates,
and trunking around the United Kingdom,
where they raided Manning,
the alleged whistleblower,
for a video release called "Collateral Murder,"
in her home in Wales.
Well, Julian Assange, we’re going to leave it there,
founder and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, speaking to us from abroad.
This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org,
the War and Peace Report.
And on that issue of "Collateral Murder,"
what WikiLeaks called the video of July 12th, 2007, of a military,
US military Apache attack on residents of Baghdad,
two Reuters employees killed in that,
you can go to our website, democracynow.org,
to see the discussion and the video.
And also an update to one of our headlines
Al Jazeera is now reporting at least three lebani soldiers
have been killed by israeli forces in a exchange of rocket and gun fire
along the border between the two countries.
A lebanist journalist was also killed and five more lebani soldiers wounded
in Israeli shelling.
At least two israeli soldiers were shot
That does it for the show, Democracy Now is produced by Mike Berg
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I am Amy Goodman, thank you so much for joining us