department of justice just declared war not when we can expose our journalism itself this is no longer birju in the songs this case will decide the future of media any government use of the espionage act to criminalize the receipts and publication of classified information poses a diet threat to journalists seeking to publish such information in the public interest irrespective of the justice department's assertion that the sun is not a journalist i think that julian assange has put out the most important journalism of my entire lifetime i can't think of anyone who has made a bigger impact on the world i mean he's been nominated for a nobel peace prize pretty much every year for the last 10 years i believe he's won countless awards for his publishing including to this month. to say that he's not a journalist is is asinine it's ridiculous he actually puts in things that change the world and it's. that people thing that he is not a journalist it's just me i think it's absolutely a thing. you saw there came to a head early in april when the ecuadorian authorities were treated before there was a

department of justice just declared war not what we can expect in journalism itself this is no longer birju in the songe this case will decide the future of media this is madness it is the end of national security journalism and the 1st amendment all the additional 17 charges heap to a song each carry a maximum of a 10 year sentence which means that his adventure will sentence could be a 175 years in prison julian assange has been charged under the us espionage act which dates back to one team 17 and so far it's only ever been used against government officials who disclosed secret information it was never used to charge journalists who publish those seek. documents and a song to the weekly team and of course the sponsors loyal supporters as i have always argued always only ever acted as a journalist which is something that the department of justice in washington refuses to acknowledge and they say that songes revealed the names of military informants in war zones and thus put their lives at risk the superseding indictment alleges the dishonest was complicit with chelsea manning a former int

department of justice just declared war not true we can explore journalism itself this is no longer birju in the songe this case will decide the future of media this is madness it is the end of national security journalism and the 1st amendment. the additional charges heaped on a songe each of them carries a maximum of 10 years behind bars which means that a songes and bench prison sentence could amount to $175.00 is in prison also what's interesting is that he's been charged under this u.s. espionage act which dates back to 1917 that's 1st world war time we're talking about and so far it's only ever been used against government officials who have disclosed secret information it's never been used to charge journalists for journalistic activity or for publishing such secret materials and a son in the wiki leaks legal team and his very loyal supporters have always said that he acted nearly as a journalist in these publishing activities as founder of wiki leaks although that's something that the department of justice obviously disputes and refuses to acknowledge american authorities maintain