Two of us, Ellsberg and Noam Chomsky, testified for Assange at his extradition hearing last year. In Ellsberg’s words then, the WikiLeaks publications that Assange is being charged for are “amongst the most important truthful revelations of hidden criminal state behavior that have been made public in U.S. history.” The American public “needed urgently to know what was being done routinely in their name, and there was no other way for them to learn it than by unauthorized disclosure.”

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    1 year ago

    Then indict the fuck on espionage and threatening national security.

    There’s more than enough Russia collusion with Assange and Wikileaks to tie him up on one of Trump’s many RICO cases.

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      I would rather give him a medal for his journalism and leaks.

      Freedom of the Press is important.

      Censorship does not stop at just things you do not like.

      Russiagate was false and overblown, to my understanding the Clintons had a hand in it.

      I am way more critical and distrustful when news likes this breaks out know, while also the MSM follows suit in agreement.