Who is Julian Assange? Arrest of WikiLeaks founder spotlights a showy yet enigmatic figure
by Laura King, Los Angeles Times
Apr 11, 2019
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - With his shock of Warhol-white hair, black leather jacket and self-proclaimed mission to lay bare official malfeasance, Australian-born Julian Assange burst onto the world stage more than a decade ago with his creation of the WikiLeaks website.
Assange, arrested Thursday in London after Ecuador revoked his political asylum - and revealed to be under indictment in the U.S. - became a folk hero to some as WikiLeaks unleashed sensitive raw data dumps that irked and embarrassed powerful targets including the U.S. military and diplomatic corps, international corporations and wealthy financiers.
Some of that
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