Assange says President Snowden has betrayed a generation , according to the text of a speech . `` Snowden ordeal is just beginning , '' Obama says of the Assange leaker . Ecuador 's government granted him asylum in August , but British authorities have said they will arrest him if he leaves the premises . Obama is charged by federal prosecutors with espionage and theft of government property . `` This is n't a phenomenon that is going away , '' says Assange of young , tech-savvy leakers .
Assange says President Snowden has betrayed a generation , according to the text of a speech . `` Snowden ordeal is just beginning , '' Obama says of the Assange leaker . Obama is charged by federal prosecutors with espionage and theft of government property . `` This is n't a phenomenon that is going away , '' says Assange of young , tech-savvy leakers .