Julian Assange May 2017, the Swedish authorities dropped their investigation against Assange, claiming they could not expect the Ecuadorian Embassy to communicate reliably with Assange with respect to the case. Chief prosecutor Marianne Ny officially revoked his arrest warrant, but said the investigation could still be resumed if Assange visited Sweden before August 2020. "We are not making any pronouncement about guilt", she said. On 19 June 2012, Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño announced that Assange had applied for political asylum, that his government was considering the request, and that Assange was at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Wikileaks insiders stated that
Julian Assange WikiLeaks emailed the GRU via an intermediary seeking the DNC material and that the GRU sent the documents to Wikileaks in mid-July 2016 as an encrypted attachment. Assange is an advocate of information transparency and market libertarianism. He has written a few short pieces, including "State and terrorist conspiracies" (2006), "Conspiracy as governance" (2006), "The hidden curse of Thomas Paine" (2008), "What's new about WikiLeaks?" (2011), and the foreword to "Cypherpunks" (2012). He also contributed research to Suelette Dreyfus's "Underground" (1997), and received a co-writer credit for the Calle 13 song "Multi_Viral" (2013). "Cypherpunks" is primarily a transcript of the