Cenk Uygur talks with Elliot Peters, attorney for Reddit co-creator Aaron Swartz before his death, about the government’s eagerness to convict Swartz. Peters also responds to rumors that Swartz had WikiLeaks connections. Reports claim that Swartz requested government information on Pvt. Bradley Manning, the solider currently in custody under suspicion of passing classified U.S. military intelligence to WikiLeaks. Peters says, “The WikiLeaks allegations are posted in a way which is kind of anonymous and kind of vague. If there’s information about that, I’d like to know what it is. I’m not sure what Aaron could have offered WikiLeaks. He wasn’t a government employee. He wasn’t someone with access to the kind of information that they typically publish, but he certainly is a person who was a devotee and a real believer in free access to information on the Internet.”
