"[The NSA] is the core of the US deep state… There has been a smoothing
out between the government and the corporations," the whistleblower
stressed.
US tech giant Google is heavily integrated with the US establishment and is allying with the US exceptionalism campaign, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said.
"Google is heavily integrated with Washington power,
at personal level and at business level… Google which has increasing
control over the distribution channels… is intensely allying itself US
exceptionalism," Assange said via video link at the international media
forum "New Era of Journalism: Farewell to Mainstream" hosted by Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency.
According to the whistleblower, Google has turned into a "traditional US
state power," reminding that its former CEO Eric Schmidt was now
heading the Pentagon innovation board.
"Google is directly engaged with Hillary Clinton’s campaign," Assange
claimed adding that the company used the State Department, "it’s a quid
pro quo [a favor granted in return]."
The whistleblower called Hillary Clinton a problem for freedom of speech in the US.
"Of course she when she is in power… She is problem for freedom of speech."
He added Clinton was a predictable politician, unlike her Republican rival Donald Trump.
"We know what she is going to do. And she made
the chart for the destruction of Libya, she was involved in the process
of taking the Libyan armory and sending it to Syria," Assange said.
"It [Google] shows will to use that at different
levels. It will inevitably influence its audience," Assange said,
pointing to Google using its front page to "promote [US State Secretary]
John Kerry's call for bombing on Syria in 2013" and conspiring with "Al
Jazeera to encourage Syrian defectors."
Moreover, US tech giant Google views China as a rival, as it is closely allied with the United States, WikiLeaks founder said.
"I see Google exit from China…It seems much
more to do with Google's feeling that it is part of ‘family America’ and
that it is opposed to the Chinese," Assange said via video link at the
international media forum "New Era of Journalism: Farewell
to Mainstream" hosted by Rossiya Segodnya International Information
Agency.
The whilsteblower said he felt that China was former Google's CEO Eric Schmidt's "rival, his enemy."
According to Assange, Washington feels threatened by China.
"Google is intensely Washington, DC-aligned company," the whistleblower stressed.
Assange delivered his speech remotely via a video conference from the
Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has been residing since August
2012.
Assange launched the WikiLeaks
website in 2006. Since then, the site has released millions
of classified diplomatic documents from around the world on espionage
practices, war crimes, torture and many other human rights violations.
The US charges against the whistleblower include espionage, conspiracy,
theft of government property and computer fraud — for which Assange
could face about 45 years in prison.
Ecuador's decision to grant Assange asylum helped him avoid
prosecution by the United States over a range of controversial
revelations made by his whistleblower website.
