Assange looks to contest Senate election
WIKILEAKS
publisher Julian Assange has confirmed his intention to run as a Senate
candidate in the 2013 Australian federal election and will announce the
formation of a WikiLeaks political party early next year. Julian Assange: The
Fugitive Nearly six months after he sought political asylum in Ecuador's London
embassy, Mr Assange doesn't expect his circumstances to change soon. Although he
thinks it "inevitable" that the United States government will eventually drop
its espionage investigation into WikiLeaks, he fears such an outcome may be
"several years away". In an interview with Fairfax Media, Mr Assange suggested
the court martial of alleged WikiLeaks source, US Army Private Bradley Manning,
now scheduled for March, would reveal "details " about how [US prosecutors] may
have framed a case for conspiracy between " Manning and myself."
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