Assange is coming to America where we will find out if freedom of the press is more important than keeping the lid on government malpractice like spying on Trump and on his campaign. The U.N. declared he is being arbitrarily held captive, i.e., detained. Edward Snowden is involved in a similar set of charges and is in Russia where is is protected from extradition.
President Donald Trump praised WikiLeaks repeatedly in the late stages of his election, in which he defeated Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
WikiLeaks rose to fame posting confidential items such as the U.S. military manual on handling prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, documents from the Church of Scientology, emails from Sarah Palin and pager messages in New York from 9/11. But the website really gained attention in 2010, publishing hundreds of thousands of pages of classified documents related to U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Assange said he’s afraid if he leaves the embassy, he could end up being extradited and facing the death penalty in the United States over allegations of revealing government secrets through his site, WikiLeaks, if he is charged and convicted of publishing U.S. government secrets.
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