This will make it more difficult.
The Obama administration chose not to bring charges.
I don’t trust the Trump administration.
Paul Waldman, a left of center writer at WaPo, and no Assange fan, has a warning: Don’t celebrate the indictment of Julian Assange. Here’s why, from his article today:
Julian Assange, I think we can all agree, is a dirtbag. But that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a good thing that he’s been arrested and will apparently be extradited to the United States.
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The Obama administration, while critical of Assange, decided that the First Amendment implications of charging him with a crime were too troubling, so they declined to do so.
That’s because, whatever you think of WikiLeaks, if we criminalize receiving classified information, some of the most important works of journalism in American history would be transformed into crimes, and every reporter who works on national security would be a potential criminal.