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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    Assange isn’t an American citizen, it’s disturbing to see so many psychopaths out for blood for the simple crime of telling the truth, especially when he’s not even a citizen of said country which sets a very disturbing precedent.

    the US is falling into the trap Russia wants, and if we had intelligent leaders, they would drop the charges and move on from it. We know Afghanistan was a failure and we know why, it’s not a mystery anymore and the US doesn’t even deny any of the wikileaks accusations so this entire witch-hunt is just disturbing at this point and does nothing to give anyone any confidence in this country

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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.

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    Assange was the tool of a foreign intelligence service who salted WikiLeaks with disinformation harmful to national interests. I believe the term of art is “useful idiot”.

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    Keep in mind that he fully admitted to holding back info on Trump. He exercised editorial control over submitted content in order to push an agenda.

    Now, so does a lot of the media, but he was portraying Wikileaks as a beacon of transparency.

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      There is a reasob to fleeing to Russia and other places.

      Do you know what happens to the ones they catch?

      Even someone like Epstein only lasted a bit before going to hang with the reaper.

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      had he not squatted in that embassy, he’d probably be out dead by now.

      there, fixed it for you.