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The Espionage Act, as it is applied to the WikiLeaks publisher or any other journalist, also violates basic norms of due process, writes Bruce Afran.  By Bruce Afran Special to Consortium News Last week marked four years of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange being held at Britain's B

In an era when powerful institutions demonize decent people and the mainstream media joins in, piling on the abuse legal proceedings have become another Kafka-esque weapon of coercion. Few cases are more troubling than the persecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, as John Pilger describes.