I am no fan of Assange, but charging him with espionage is overreach. By the same token, you could also charge the Ny Times, the Guardian and Spiegel, all of which coordinated with Wikileaks and released the same info in 2010.
Prosecutors are trying to argue Assange is not a "real journalist", but to me it is a slippery slope if the Government gets to choose who are the "real journalists" worthy of protection and who are "political activists" who can be jailed.
How long before all journalists stop reporting the hard news because they are afraid of being prosecuted?
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