Whiskerkenbrook, 4 months ago

@dangillmor Russia long ago decided weaponizing the pillars of Western Democracy was a much better investment than hardware.

markhughes, 4 months ago

@dangillmor the guy is a patsy, so I'm glad you and Rushbridger who betrayed him finally stand up against the attack on the truth that is essential to holding criminals at the Presidential level to account. Without that we get fascist dictators or governments like Netanyahu's committing genocide to avoid trial.

Robert_R_Freitag_II, 4 months ago

@dangillmor

"I am not a fan . . . " = "I reluctantly do the right thing . . . "

ryansingel, 4 months ago

@dangillmor
The Espionage Act charges are disturbing, but Assange is also being charged with a set of hacking charges that are based in fact and that no journalist would ever engage in.

I'm all for protesting the Espionage charges but his defenders refuse to even acknowledge the other charges.

Nor have I seen any media or press freedom org offer a mea culpa for continuing to support Assange when it became clear he was a sociopath and a political actor in league with Russia

dangillmor, 4 months ago

@ryansingel It is possible to despise what he did in ~2016 and recognize the direct threat this case poses to journalism. (I don't think the hacking charges are as clear as you believe.)

DrollTide, 4 months ago

@dangillmor Rusbridger must have quite the sprained wrist from all the handwaving he did in that piece.