“The Department of Justice just declared war – not on Wikileaks, but on journalism itself,” Snowden tweeted Thursday, adding “this is no longer about Julian Assange: This case will decide the future of media.”
The Thursday charges threaten to put Assange behind bars for over 170 years, if he is convicted.
WikiLeaks has too reacted by slamming the move as “madness” and declaring “the end of national security journalism”and even the First Amendment itself.
Assange was arrested by British authorities in April after spending almost seven years under political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Washington is seeking the journalist’s extradition, having previously unsealed an indictment against Assange alleging conspiracy to hack Pentagon computers in 2010.
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