{"id":21009,"date":"2012-08-21T00:58:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T23:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=21009"},"modified":"2015-03-13T14:23:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T14:23:31","slug":"daniel-ellsberg-i-congratulate-ecuador-for-standing-up-to-british-empire-to-protect-julian-assange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/08\/daniel-ellsberg-i-congratulate-ecuador-for-standing-up-to-british-empire-to-protect-julian-assange\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Ellsberg: I Congratulate Ecuador for Standing Up to British Empire to Protect Julian Assange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Ellsberg, the most famous whistleblower in the United States, praises Ecuador for granting political asylum to Julian Assange to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning over sex crime accusations. &#8220;I congratulate Ecuador of course for standing up to the British Empire here, for insisting that they are not a British colony, and acting as a sovereign state ought to act,&#8221; said Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, the secret history of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. On Thursday [16 Aug 2012], British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Assange would be arrested if he left the embassy, saying Britain is &#8220;under a binding obligation to extradite him to Sweden. &#8220;[Assange] has every reason to be wary that the real intent here is to whisk him away to America where it really hasn&#8217;t been made clear what might be waiting for him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k2IX8qBf-e4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Ellsberg, the most famous whistleblower in the United States, praises Ecuador for granting political asylum to Julian Assange to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning over sex crime accusations. &#8220;I congratulate Ecuador of course for standing up to the British Empire here, for insisting that they are not a British colony, and acting as a sovereign state ought to act,&#8221; said Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, the secret history of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whistleblowing-surveillance","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}