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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 4025373" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>It <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2011/12/defense-manning-was-overcharged-070787?paginate=false" target="_blank">was long known</a> by the Obama DOJ and was explicitly part of Manning’s trial, yet the <strong>Obama DOJ – <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/opinion/sunday/if-donald-trump-targets-journalists-thank-obama.html" target="_blank">not exactly renowned</a> for being stalwart guardians of press freedoms – concluded it could not and should not prosecute Assange because indicting him would pose serious threats to press freedom.</strong></p><p></p><p>In other words, the indictment seeks to criminalize what journalists are not only permitted but ethically required to do: take steps to help their sources maintain their anonymity. As long-time Assange lawyer Barry Pollack <a href="https://twitter.com/Isikoff/status/1116343484552708098" target="_blank">put it</a>: “the factual allegations…boil down to encouraging a source to provide him information and taking efforts to protect the identify of that source. Journalists around the world should be deeply troubled by these unprecedented criminal charges.”</p><p></p><p>That’s why the indictment poses such a grave threat to press freedom. It characterizes as a felony many actions that journalists are not just permitted but required to take in order to conduct sensitive reporting in the digital age.</p><p></p><p>But in 2013, the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/julian-assange-unlikely-to-face-us-charges-over-publishing-classified-documents/2013/11/25/dd27decc-55f1-11e3-8304-caf30787c0a9_story.html?utm_term=.a5ca2f419894" target="_blank">Obama DOJ concluded that it could not prosecute</a> Assange in connection with publication of those documents because<strong> there was no way to distinguish what WikiLeaks did from what the New York Times, the Guardian and numerous media outlets around the world routinely do: namely, work with sources to publish classified documents.</strong></p><p></p><p>As the New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/us/politics/trump-administration-assange-wikileaks.html" target="_blank">reported late last year</a>, “Soon after he took over as C.I.A. director, [current Secretary of State] Mike Pompeo privately told lawmakers about a new target for American spies: Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.” The Times added that <strong>“Mr. Pompeo and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions unleashed an aggressive campaign against Mr. Assange, reversing an Obama-era view of WikiLeaks as a journalistic entity.”</strong></p><p></p><p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/04/11/the-u-s-governments-indictment-of-julian-assange-poses-grave-threats-to-press-freedoms/" target="_blank">The U.S. Government’s Indictment of Julian Assange Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedoms</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 4025373, member: 56035"] It [URL='https://www.politico.com/story/2011/12/defense-manning-was-overcharged-070787?paginate=false']was long known[/URL] by the Obama DOJ and was explicitly part of Manning’s trial, yet the [B]Obama DOJ – [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/opinion/sunday/if-donald-trump-targets-journalists-thank-obama.html']not exactly renowned[/URL] for being stalwart guardians of press freedoms – concluded it could not and should not prosecute Assange because indicting him would pose serious threats to press freedom.[/B] In other words, the indictment seeks to criminalize what journalists are not only permitted but ethically required to do: take steps to help their sources maintain their anonymity. As long-time Assange lawyer Barry Pollack [URL='https://twitter.com/Isikoff/status/1116343484552708098']put it[/URL]: “the factual allegations…boil down to encouraging a source to provide him information and taking efforts to protect the identify of that source. Journalists around the world should be deeply troubled by these unprecedented criminal charges.” That’s why the indictment poses such a grave threat to press freedom. It characterizes as a felony many actions that journalists are not just permitted but required to take in order to conduct sensitive reporting in the digital age. But in 2013, the [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/julian-assange-unlikely-to-face-us-charges-over-publishing-classified-documents/2013/11/25/dd27decc-55f1-11e3-8304-caf30787c0a9_story.html?utm_term=.a5ca2f419894']Obama DOJ concluded that it could not prosecute[/URL] Assange in connection with publication of those documents because[B] there was no way to distinguish what WikiLeaks did from what the New York Times, the Guardian and numerous media outlets around the world routinely do: namely, work with sources to publish classified documents.[/B] As the New York Times [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/us/politics/trump-administration-assange-wikileaks.html']reported late last year[/URL], “Soon after he took over as C.I.A. director, [current Secretary of State] Mike Pompeo privately told lawmakers about a new target for American spies: Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.” The Times added that [B]“Mr. Pompeo and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions unleashed an aggressive campaign against Mr. Assange, reversing an Obama-era view of WikiLeaks as a journalistic entity.”[/B] [URL="https://theintercept.com/2019/04/11/the-u-s-governments-indictment-of-julian-assange-poses-grave-threats-to-press-freedoms/"]The U.S. Government’s Indictment of Julian Assange Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedoms[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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