Assange is free at last, but the real bad guys won

The Wikileaks founder’s ordeal will prevent a dozen, or 100, or 1,000 potential whistle-blowers who have information that the public needs to know from blowing their whistles.

The example set by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, pictured in 2014, was a huge threat to the secret state, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

June 26, 2024

LONDON, U.K.—Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is a free man at last after spending almost all of the past 14 years in jail, or other forms of confinement. He has just arrived home in Australia to be greeted by his family, including two young sons who have never seen him ex...

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