"I am Assange!" Daniel Ellsberg, Other Allies Demand US Prosecute Them, Too
from Newsweek, By On 12/15/22 at 6:00 AM EST
Julian Assange is having a Spartacus moment.
Veteran Pentagon whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and government transparency advocate John Young are challenging the U.S. Department of Justice to prosecute them alongside the Wikileaks founder, saying they broke the law just as he did, by publishing or possessing a trove of classified documents.
"I am Assange!" Daniel Ellsberg, Other Allies Demand US Prosecute Them, Too
from Newsweek, By On 12/15/22 at 6:00 AM EST
Julian Assange is having a Spartacus moment.
Veteran Pentagon whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and government transparency advocate John Young are challenging the U.S. Department of Justice to prosecute them alongside the Wikileaks founder, saying they broke the law just as he did, by publishing or possessing a trove of classified documents.
Their calls underline the concerns of First Amendment advocates that prosecuting Assange could open the door to cases against any news organization that publishes government secrets.
In interviews with Newsweek, the two also shed further light on how the complete and unredacted archive of a quarter million classified State Department intelligence reports known as Cablegate, and leaked by junior intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, came to be published online in September 2011.
Read the entire article at https://www.newsweek.com/i-am-assange-daniel-ellsberg-other-allies-demand-us-prosecute-them-too-1766616
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