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CBS anchor Katie Couric aired her one-on-one with Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.org, as he granted a round of interviews from his bail location in the snowy English countryside. Couric's major criticism of WikiLeaks' dump of State Department secrets was the one mentioned by David Martin, CBS' Pentagon correspondent, last week: that it publicized global infrastructure weak points, making them terrorist targets. Assange's answer to Couric comes at 2:55.
On CBS, Assange criticized prosecutors for an attempt to "conflate media activities with espionage." ABC's Jim Sciutto was on the scene for his q-&-a: "Security officers have a job to keep things secret. The press has a job to expose the public to the truth. So that is our job and we are doing it. The fact that the State Department was not able to do their job is a matter for them," was Assange's money quote. Sciutto asked Assange if he had forcibly spread his lover's legs and held her down to have sex with her in Sweden. Watch Assange's response non-verbal at the end of the Sciutto package. On CBS, Couric asked only about secrets, not about sex.
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