z_cress on Nostr: “But, more importantly, the prosecution of Assange as a publisher—the first time ...

“But, more importantly, the prosecution of Assange as a publisher—the first time the Espionage Act would be used this way—would effectively criminalize the basic work of obtaining and publishing state secrets. It would make a lot of investigative journalism relating to national security close to impossible.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/bariweiss/p/julian-assange-whistleblower-extradition?r=7ew6d&utm_medium=ios