MSNBC Ayman December 13, 2021 02:30:00
Administration saw it as a kind of feature rather than a bug of this particular situation and went after assange knowing full well the prosecution of assange would have broad implications, not just for wikileaks but organizations like the new york times or washington post, any media organization in the united states that engages in national security and journalism. so it's a trump administration indictment, the first one under the espionage act to charge a publisher with violations of that particular act. as you mentioned, press freedom organization, not only my own but virtually every press f...