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Julian Assange: Did Google Meet With Me to Report Back to the U.S. State Department About WikiLeaks?

1,991 views · Published 29 May 2013 · 3:33 · Indexed 6 November 2026

Channel: Democracy Now! · 2013 · News & Politics

Watch the full interview with Julian Assange on Democracy Now! at http://owl.li/lwby4. On June 23, 2011, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had a secret five-hour meeting with Google CEO Eric Schmidt while under house arrest in rural England. Also in attendance was Jared Cohen, a former advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Scott Malcomson, Director of Speechwriting for Ambassador Susan Rice at the U.S. State Department and current Communications Director of the International Crisis Group; and Lisa Shields, Vice President of the Council on Foreign Relations. Schmidt and Cohen requested the meeting to discuss ideas for their book, "The New Digital World." Speaking to Democracy Now!, Julian Assange says that although the meeting was held under the auspices of gathering material for a book, he suspects Google may have had ulterior motives. "[Google is] some ways becoming informal, deniable foreign ministers for a section of U.S. power," Assange says.

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Julian Assange: Did Google Meet With Me to Report Back to the U.S. State Department About WikiLeaks?

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