If Julian Assange Is A Criminal, So Is The Entire Corporate Press, by John Daniel Davidson

Julian Assange is now a free man, but he should never have been charged with a crime to begin with.

The Wikileaks founder, who has spent the last five years in a British prison, was released Monday after striking a deal with President Biden’s Department of Justice. Assange pleaded guilty to violation of the Espionage Act for publishing classified material about U.S. government operations in the Middle East and Afghanistan beginning in 2009. He traveled to the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S.-controlled territory, on Tuesday and was expected to appear in court there on Wednesday before continuing on to his home country of Australia to be reunited with his family. …