Why the persecution of Julian Assange must end

FEE’s Hannah Cox writes, “Despite the bipartisan hatred of Assange, the only people who should be facing criminal charges in this entire scenario are the people throughout our government who are responsible for the war crimes revealed by WikiLeaks, Assange, and Manning.

Assange was merely doing what the vast majority of the mainstream media has long since neglected: his job. https://t.co/iDrULNRFIN

— FEE (@feeonline) December 10, 2021

Assange was merely doing what the vast majority of the mainstream media has long since neglected: his job. Without this kind of reporting and actual journalism, US citizens would have no idea what our government is actually up to, the depths of corruption in our wars, the human rights violations we have carried out. how our tax dollars are really being spent, and what’s being done in our name. We need more of this kind of work, a lot more of it. And the prosecution of Assange does one thing and one thing alone—it scares other journalists from doing their jobs.”

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