The US’ request to extradite and prosecute Julian Assange sets a dangerous precedent, the Intercept’s founder Glenn Greenwald has told RT, warning that it puts journalists around the world in danger.
The most “amazing” fact about Assange’s case, as far as Greenwald is concerned, is that the US government is seeking to charge him for violating the Espionage Act. But the WikiLeaks founder “is not an American citizen, he never worked with a media outlet in the United States, [and] none of the alleged crimes he committed took place on American soil,” he said during former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa’s show on RT Spanish.
If Assange is successfully extradited to the US, Greenwald predicts this will prove the country has the right to “reach over and grab” someone “anywhere in the world” reporting things they don’t like.
Total BS. He is a POW.
CNN reporters should be prosecuted not Assange, they carried out acts of terror, literally, in Syria, see for yourselves: When CNN Crew Blew Up the Oil Pipeline in Homs
Government still didn't learn the lesson from the pass. If they're illeminate one messenger of truth, there will be two or more come out for it's replacement. In my opinion these doesn't threatened investigative journalism but it only make them stronger and more careful now.