[gamblor956]

Well, for starters all the information that Assange published while running Wikileaks embarasses the previous political administration, not the current (Trump) administration... Moreover, Assange isn't being charged with embarassing anyone, since American journalists do that all the time. Assange is being charged with specific illegal acts that actual journalists don't do, like actually trying to break encryption on classified documents.

[lawnchair_larry]

Journalists do try to break encryption on classified documents, and Assange is not being charged with that. The documents were not encrypted and were obtained in cleartext from Manning.

[gamblor956]

Journalists do not try to break encryption on classified documents (because the case law protecting them for publishing classified information does not protect them if they actively attempt to acquire it), and that is actually one of the acts Assange is charged with if you read the indictment...

[lawnchair_larry]

I did read the indictments, and they contain no such charge that i can see. Which page do you believe indicates he tried to break encryption on classified documents?

[lucb1e]

> embarasses the previous political administration, not the current (Trump) administration

Is there a difference? Might be my non-USA-citizen point of view, so please correct me if I'm wrong from a USA perspective and this is not retaliation for embarrassment, but the USA government is still the USA government. If the CIA tortured people in Iraq under Obama* , I don't expect it would cease to be done under Trump. (Also not if he says so, since of course you would say that. It's inhumane, and yet it happens.)

* There have been so many scandals, forgive me if the torture one wasn't actually in Iraq or wasn't under Obama or something. It's just meant as an example of the inhumane stuff that is revealed about the USA thanks to people like Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange, etc.