Project Veritas releases BOMBSHELL call from Assange in 2011

Project Veritas has released audio of Julian Assange calling the US State Department on Aug. 26 2011 to warn them about sensitive data being made public by a third party.

On Wednesday morning, as James O'Keefe, the project's head, had been promising on social media, the audio of the call was made public on O'Keefe's Twitter account:

Cliff Johnson, who now is the director of the MacArthur Justice Centre and at the time was working for the State Department, returned Assange's call, which is what we hear in the audio posted above.

The gist of the phone call, which lasts just short of five minutes, is that an ex-Wikileaks employee by the name of Daniel Domscheit-Berg managed to get access to classified information from the State Department in the form of secured diplomatic communications.

Assange warns Johnson in the course of the call about the potential danger and, while maintaining that "we view this as more your problem than ours," nonetheless offers Johnson advice on how to handle the situation, which included the possibility of forcibly removing the files from the internet.

Assange founded Wikileaks in October of 2006, considering the organization to be a necessity in a world full of increasingly non-transparent governments and government agencies.

Assange is currently incarcerated in Her Majesty's Prison Belmarsh and facing extradition to the US to face charges of violations of the Espionage Act.

Tellingly, the video starts off with a caption saying:

"There are reports this week that Julian Assange is in talks with the White House about the possibility of a presidential pardon."