Assange “showed us the breadth and reach of the secret state. In When Google Met Wikileaks (OR Books, £10) Assange comments on what he thinks of Google but also provides a transcript of a conversation between himself and its CEO, Eric Schmidt, when they met up in England during Assange’s house arrest. He comments that Eric’s team of people was ‘one part Google, three parts US foreign-policy establishment’. An intriguing and pithy analysis of Google’s relationship with the US government.”

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