Julian Assange says he "pled guilty to journalism" for his freedom

Julian Assange, founder of the whistleblower media group Wikileaks, told European lawmakers that he “chose freedom over unrealizable justice” in his first remarks since being released from prison.

Assange, 53, returned to his home country of Australia in June after a deal was struck which saw him plead guilty to violating U.S. espionage law after 14-years in detention.

“I want to be totally clear: I am not free today because the system worked,” he said.

“I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism. I pled guilty to seeking information from a source. I pled guilty to obtaining information from a source and I pled guilty to informing the public what that information was. I did not plead guilty to anything else.”

Wikileaks released hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. military documents in 2010 on Washington’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, along with diplomatic cables, in one of the largest security breaches in U.S. military history.

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