If Julian Assange is incarcerated for exposing state malfeasance, then journalists everywhere will think twice about doing the same. c) Assange, with some justification, disliked Hilary Clinton (Clinton hounded WikiLeaks), but his views on Trump were equally scathing. Assange offered to return to Sweden if Sweden or the United States guaranteed Sweden would not subsequently extradite him to the US. In Assange’s case, I am confident the United States authorities would indeed be happy to see him dead. <>With thanks to David G. Silvers, Cancillería del Ecuador, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons, for the Assange photo.

Source: The Guardian February 19, 2024 10:20 UTC