Julian Assange Speaking to Public while under House Arrest in 2012

While he was placed under house arrest, WikiLeaks founder: Julian Assange agreed to have a secret meeting with Google’s Chairman: Eric Schmidt in 2011. The time was critical for Google because Eric wanted to have a “word” with Julian about an upcoming book that the company was working on. This book was expected to be released 1 week after the secret meeting took place.

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Of course, your intestines are quivering to get the insight on the contents of that meeting. It was the 23rd of June 2011, Google Chairman: Eric Schmidt, alongside Lisa Shields, had a 5 hour long discussion with Julian Assange at his residence, while the government had placed him under house arrest.

The agenda of that meeting was to help Schmidt verify some material for his upcoming book: “The New Digital Age”. However, if you were to read the transcript of that meeting, you’ll realize that things slightly went beyond the scope of the soon to be released book.

Transcript of Secret Meeting Between Julian Assange and Eric Schmidt

Lisa Shields and Eric Schmidt were also accompanied by Jared Cohen. CNET describes Cohen’s role during the meeting as the co-author of “The New Digital Age”. The fact of the matter is that Cohen was also appointed as Google’s Ideas Director (at the time of that 2011 meeting), and had been in service of the United States Government, alongside contact with several influential people of the country.

Click Here to Read the Full Transcript Content of the Interview at WikiLeaks Website

The official WikiLeaks Page, where the entire transcript of that 5 hour meeting has been published (as of April 19, 2013), states Jared Cohen’s role as: “a former Secretary of State advisor to Hillary Clinton, Scott Malcomson, Director of Speechwriting for Ambassador Susan Rice at the US State Department and current Communications Director of the International Crisis Group, and Lisa Shields, Vice President of the Council on Foreign Relations.”

Over the course of the interview, Schmidt seemed to be highly appreciative of the inner workings of Julian Assange’s network. Assange, on the other hand, said, “I have been given a guarantee that I will see the transcript and will be able to adjust it for accuracy and clarity.”

Assange believes that disinformation is easier to distribute because of media’s influence on a common man’s life. To him, the genesis of WikiLeaks is to assist people in getting the real information, as opposed to our current information distribution networks, which Assange interprets as “a crippled” and a poorly managed system.

Schmidt also talked about WikiLeaks as a website that’s considered a threat at national security level. Of course, people have mixed views concerning Assange’s lifelong project. Some of them are sympathetic to his cause, while others have their own reasons to condemn whatever actions that WikiLeaks’ has taken in the past.