Clutched in his cuffed hands as WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange was carried down the steps of London’s Ecuadorian embassy and into a police van was a book, its cover facing cameras on the street. Looking frail after seven years in his cramped embassy quarters, Assange emerged and pointedly held out a copy of ‘Gore Vidal: History of The National Security State (Includes Vidal on America)’. Later, at Westminster Magistrates’ Court for his first hearing, he sat reading Vidal while waiting for his lawyers to arrive. “It could be useful to tell them, actually, what happens around the world.”Founded by Assange in 2006, Wikileaks is an information firehose. Assange had been facing extradition to Sweden on sexual assault allegations, but feared the end goal was his extradition to the U.S.“Mr.

Source: National Post April 11, 2019 18:48 UTC