Assange: More Important Revelations on US Spying Yet to Come

© AP Photo / John StillwellJulian Assange, with Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño, said in an Aug. 8 2014 press conference that he would be "leaving the embassy soon," though denied he was going to hand himself over to British police.
Julian Assange, with Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño, said in an Aug. 8 2014 press conference that he would be leaving the embassy soon, though denied he was going to hand himself over to British police. - Sputnik International
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More revelations of US spying activities abroad, particularly in Europe, will follow the recent leak of Washington’s snooping on three French presidents, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told the French TF1 TV channel.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – On Tuesday, WikiLeaks began publishing documents, leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, pertaining to the US National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) interception of communications of the last three French presidents, including the incumbent Francois Hollande.

"This is the beginning of a series," Assange told TF1 on Wednesday via a video linkup from London, adding that more important documents than the ones already published by WikiLeaks will be released in the near future.

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Assange stressed that the information that WikiLeaks possesses leaves no doubts that Washington used "actual deception" with regard to French President Francois Hollande and the country’s two former leaders — Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac.

According to the WikiLeaks founder, information that is more important from the political perspective "will be coming out" in the following days regarding not only US spying in France, but Washington’s surveillance in Europe in general.

US surveillance is a threat to the sovereignty of Europe, Assange said, calling on France not to put its head in the sand, but to "show some leadership" and to take legal action over US snooping.

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Speaking about economic and industrial espionage, Assange claimed that the United States "is playing dirty" and is marginalizing the competitiveness of French and European enterprises.

Assange launched the WikiLeaks website in 2006. Four years later he was accused of sexual assault by Swedish authorities. He has been residing at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 2012, out of fear of being extradited to the United States where he could face espionage charges for publishing secret documents.

Another well-known whistleblower, former NSA contractor Snowden, leaked classified documents on US mass surveillance activities in 2013. Snowden has since found asylum in Russia.

Over the past years, documents published by Snowden have revealed US surveillance practices on many world leaders, as well as on millions of American citizens — without a court warrant.

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