Julian Assange on Pleading Guilty to Journalism

I want to be totally clear.

I am not free today because the system worked.

I am free today after years of incarceration because I

pled guilty to journalism.

I pled guilty to seeking information from a source.

I pled guilty to obtaining information from a source,

and I pled guilty to informing the public

what that information was.

I did not plead guilty to anything else.

I hope my testimony today can serve to highlight the weakness,

the weaknesses of the existing safeguards

and to help those whose cases are less visible but who are equally

vulnerable