Assange 'anarchist', not journalist: US

The US also  said that Assange cannot be considered as a journalist or a whistleblower.

“He is not a journalist. He is not a whistleblower. He is a political actor. He has a political agenda,” State Department spokesman P J Crowley told reporters here.

“He is trying to undermine the international system that enables us to cooperate and collaborate with other governments and to work in multilateral settings and on a bilateral basis to help solve regional and international issues,” Crowley said in response to a question.

“What he is doing is damaging to our efforts and the efforts of other governments. They are putting at risk our national interest and the interests of other governments around the world. He is not an objective observer of anything.

“He is an active player. He has an agenda. He’s trying to pursue that agenda, and I don’t think he can qualify as either a journalist on the one hand or a whistleblower on the other,” Crowley argued.

“I think he is an anarchist, but he is not a journalist,” he said.