however, the law they're using here is usually reserved for rogue government officials like chelsea manning, the soldier who gave assange the information. journalists are not charged under the act. it's never happened before. now, i hear some of you saying he's not a journalist. leave it aside. that he compromised national security. leave it aside. that's what the government is going to argue and we'll see what they can put on the meat of the bones of that. but they need to say more than that to keep journalism free from any restriction. my argument to you is if assange gets hooked for what the government is describing, i may be next. the government's best arguer is that assange went further than a traditional publisher when he encouraged manning to continue her theft of classified documents and agreed to help her crack a password hash to a military computer. the second part of that has to be everything, breaking into a computer, crime, helping someone break in, crime, encouraging