WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange praised United States Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) and his father, Dr. Ron Paul, during an interview Friday in which he said the family has been among the biggest supporters his whistleblowing group has in Congress. The Paul family, added Assange, have been “the strongest supporters of the fight against the US attack on WikiLeaks and on me.” http://rt.com/usa/assange-ron-rand-paul-584/ “It’s not going to come from the Democrats, it’s not going to come from Ralph Nader, it’s not going to come from the co-opted parts of the Republican Party,” Assange said. “The only hope as far as electoral politics… presently, is the libertarian section of the Republican Party.”
Before Rep. Ron Paul retired from Congress, he campaigned unsuccessfully in the 2012 US presidential contest. During that race to the White House, Rep. Paul spoke in support of WikiLeaks and their most well-known source, Army Private Bradley Manning, even though the soldier’s admitted actions had led other members of the GOP to call for the prosecution of both Assange and his source.
“I’d have him protected under the whistleblowers act,” Rep. Paul said at a campaign stop in San Antonio, Texas last April.
“I imagine people ought to think it through, but from what I can do see from my viewpoint, is that his motivation had nothing to do with helping the enemy,” he said. “You know that if anybody had ever suffered a consequence because of the release of those thousands and thousands of pages, we would have heard about it by now.”
