Meet Julain Assange's guardian angel

November 03, 2011 14:30

Julian Assange will return to the unlikely place he's called home for the last 11 months: a 10-bedroom manor house in the British countryside, in the beautiful, rolling lands on the border of Norfolk and Suffolk, surrounded by 600 acres of woods, farms, and fields.

His host, who stepped in at Assange's darkest hour last December when a court refused to let the WikiLeaks founder post bail unless he had a permanent address in Britain, is Vaughan Smith, the founder of the Frontline Club and avid campaigner for journalistic freedoms. Read the story onthe Daily Beast.

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