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Earlier you were flagged, so I could not reply to you directly, but I wanted to share with you an article which explores the first amendment issues and the Assange case which you should read: https://theintercept.com/2019/04/11/the-u-s-governments-indi...

The article explains how there is a very strong press freedom issue at play:

But in 2013, the Obama DOJ concluded that it could not prosecute Assange in connection with the publication of those documents because there was no way to distinguish what WikiLeaks did from what the New York Times, The Guardian, and numerous media outlets around the world routinely do: namely, work with sources to publish classified documents.

I'm sharing the same link a little lower - hope this isn't breaking any HN rules - but wanted to share it with you.