text:  In a 2011 interview Assange gave to CBS News' 60 Minutes, he said there is a responsibility to have information placed in the hands of the public. And we don't say that the State Department should have no secrets. That's not what we say. Rather we say that if there are people in the State Department who say that there is some abuse going on, and there's not a proper mechanism for internal accountability and external accountability, they must have a conduit to get that out to the public. And we are the conduit.