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Anyone with a mouth and the power of speech is a journalist. Everyone commits the crime of telling the truth, at least from time to time.

This prosecution of Assange is a threat to every person on Earth.

Can they also get their hands on leaked documents?

May be sign of things to come. It may not have to be leaked govt. documents but publishing anything that go against the Establishment's narrative can be cause enough to level "trumped up" charges in order to silence and or imprison critics of any stripe should de-platforming or being made a social outcast isn'r sufficient enough.