international to discuss this story julian burnside i guess the strain barrister previously advocated on behalf of julian assange is thank you thank you. now it is not the 1st time that the united kingdom has blocked extradition to the us jus to concerns over the accused person's mental health gary mckinnon a british hacker in 2002 was accused of breaching sensitive u.s. military computer systems if found guilty he could have faced up to 17 years behind bars in america after 10 years of legal battle to raise them a then home secretary ruled not to send him overseas citing the risk of him committing suicide r.t. spoke exclusively to mckinnon we should leave him be in this position you know 7 years during embassy the best part of 2 years in belmarsh prison for telling the truth you know he's not a criminal. jury and the killings did their best to always ensure that they live for intelligent assets in danger and it really has been journalism on trial mainly in what do you mainly to the heavy handed us authorities but also exacerbated by this from to curiously unbalanced tradition treaty

julian burnside to the australian barrister who spews the advocated on the song just behalf discuss the whistle blows prospects for this. i'm aware that everyone is concerned that the americans are appealing about there's nothing to stop a son from cross appealing a songes fundamental position is that he was acting as every journalist acts you know ever since the daniel ellsberg case in russia the pentagon papers it has been fundamental in american role that a person who merely acts as a journalist has the protection of the 1st amendment and. even if the person who leaked information to them. commits an offense it is not a criminal offense to publish that material the most notorious of the disclosures by wiki leaks was the video collateral murder which i think upsets the american the great deal that that video was released by a songe along with a lot of other material later and. we most of us would not have heard about it except that it was republished by the major news networks across the across the world now the leaders of the major news networks are not being prosecuted they're not b