Julian Assange (The More Things Changed)

Julian Paul Assange (/əˈsɑːnʒ/; born Hawkins; 3 July, 1971) is an Australian computer programmer and politician best known as Editor-in-Chief of WikiLeaks; since 2013 he has been a Senator-Elect for the Senate of Australia from the state of Victoria. Although he has not formally taken his seat, his step-father, Brett Assange, has stepped in to take his son's place in the Senate during the younger Assange's exile in London, then Montenegro.

Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006, but came to international attention in 2010, when WikiLeaks published a series of leaks provided by Chelsea Manning, and thereafter of Edward Snowden. Among these leaks were the Collateral Murder video (April 2010), Afghanistan war logs (July 2010), Iraq war logs (October 2010), and CableGate (November 2010). Following the 2010 leaks, the federal government of the United States launched a criminal investigation into WikiLeaks and asked allied nations for assistance.[

Since 2017, he has served has the founder and director of the Open Intelligence Agency, headquartered in Montenegro.