To the staff, supporters and sources of Wikileaks whose courage and commitment and loyalty has seen no equal.
To my family and to my children who have been denied their father forgive me we will be reunited soon.
As Wikileaks stands under threat so does the freedom of expression and the health of our societies. We must use this moment to articulate te choice that is before the government of the United States of America.
Will it return to and reaffirm the values it was founded on? Or will it lurch off the precipice dragging us all into a dangerous and oppressive world in which journalists fall silent under the fear of prosecution and citizens must whisper in the dark?
I say that it must turn back.
I ask President Obama to do the right thing.
The United States must renounce its witch-hunt against Wikileaks.
The United States must dissolve its FBI investigation.
The United States must vow that it will not seek to prosecute our staff or our supporters.
The United States must pledge before the world that it will not pursue journalists for shining a light on the secret crimes of the powerful.
There must be no more foolish talk about prosecuting any media organization be it Wikileaks or the New York Times.
The US administration's war on whistleblowers must end.
Thomas Drake and William Binney and John Kiriakou and other heroic US whistleblowers must - they must - be pardoned and compensated for the hardships they have endured as servants of the public record.
And the Army Private who remains in a military prison in Fort Levenworth Kansas, who was found by the UN to have endured most torturous detention in Quantico Virginia and who has yet after two years in the prison to see a trial, he must be released.
Bradley Manning must be released.
If Bradley Manning really did as he is accused he is a hero an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners.
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