Commentary: Julian Assange's slide into dirty tricks
by Virginia Heffernan, Los Angeles Times
Nov 05, 2018
3 minutes
Not long ago, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, was considered a lionhearted champion of civil liberties and government transparency.
In 2007, he helped expose human rights abuses at Guantanamo Bay. In 2009, Amnesty International gave Assange one of its Media Awards for exposing a police massacre in Kenya.
In 2010, he was Time magazine readers' choice for Person of the Year. In 2011, he won the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. An article in Forbes in 2012 likened him
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