Assange: NSA, FBI programs amount to 'mass spying'

June 08, 2013 00:15

The court martial trial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who is charged with handing over thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks, resumes Monday in Maryland.

Prosecutors at the Justice Department are reportedly trying to link Manning to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and possibly to indict Assange himself -- for publishing classified material.Assange, who has been granted political asylum by Ecuador and has been living at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for nearly a year, spoke to CBS This Morning Friday about recent, developing stories involving similar national security leaks in the US, namely the revelation Thursday that the National Security Agency and the FBI tapped into the servers of nine major Internet companies to allow analysts to track an individual's communications under a program known as PRISM.

"People have a right to understand what the government is doing in their name," Assange said of the PRISM revelation and new details about NSA collection of records of millions of US Verizon phone customers.

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