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https://www.truthdig.com/articles/whats-really-behind-julian-assanges-arrest/
"The indictment charges Assange and Chelsea Manning with conspiracy, and
in particular conspiracy to violate the Espionage Act, which has never
been used against a journalist in the history of the United States, or
against a publisher....it’s kind of a shame that we have to say, put in
this disclaimer, “whatever you think of Julian Assange.” Because of
course, any whistleblower is going to be attacked, and it’s the
traditional argument of shooting the messenger."
Good policy to keep precedent-breaking, and probably for that matter
Constitutional, laws on the books such as the Espionage Act, to bring
forth when the times, class interest, a compliant SCOTUS and collapsed
public interest, are aligned propitious.
That it affects oligopsonist publishers as well like the NYT and WAPO,
is largely irrelevant, since there comes a time when their well-being
depends much more on their deployment with their class on matters of
social control than on any benefits to them advanced by investigative
reporting.
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