Assange on Obama Speech: “Embarrassing,” Dragged Kicking and Screaming to Reform by Snowden

Juan Cole 01/18/2014

Julian Assange responds to Obama speech on NSA reform at CNN

AFP reports:

Obama surveillance pledge will change little: Assange (via AFP)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Friday dismissed President Barack Obama’s proposals to curb the reach of the National Security Agency (NSA), saying they would change very little. In a speech intended to quell the furor over surveillance programs…

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page