Because he is a journalist ostensibly protected by the First Amendment guarantee of free speech, the handling of the “threat” posed by journalist Assange is inevitably somewhat different than a leak by a government official, referred to as a whistleblower. ..…

Chelsea Manning is mistreated the same way, locked in cage indefinitely for invoking her constitutional right to remain silent, refusing to testify against Assange in  jury proceedings.. It's unconstitutional, banned under Amendment, prohibiting cruel and unusual punishments, yet it..…

Whether or not a court would invoke the First Amendment to strike down an Assange conviction (thereby blowing a hole in the Espionage Act) is an open question. . ..…

According to Jameel Jaffer of the Knight Ridder First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, the charges against Assange “rely almost entirely on conduct that investigative journalists engage in every day. ... Publishing information that exposes outrageous government conduct is at..…

Adverse publicity begins with the claim that Assange is not journalist and is not entitled to protection from The First Amendment of the US constitution concerning freedom of speech and of the press. ..…

Not so Sanders’s tweet, which failed to name either Assange or WikiLeaks. ... Assange for years without challenging the First Amendment, chilling reporters’ activities or discouraging the British government, which is holding Mr. ..…

The prosecution of WikiLeaks Julian Assange under Espionage Act represents dangerous turn President Donald Trump's on First Amendment. The new charges allege that Assange collaborated with former Army Intelligence Officer Chelsea Manning from 2009 to 2011 to obtain and publish..…

Free press defenders condemned this aggressive prosecution of Assange by Trump as the significant and terrifying threat to First Amendment in the 21st century.. ..…

The New Yorker's Masha Gessen, The use of Espionage Act to prosecute Assange is attack on First Amendment.. ..…

Trump's Justice department has decided to charge Julian Assange with 17 counts of violating Espionage Act for his in obtaining and publishing secret military and diplomatic documents in 2010, Justice Department announced on Thursday, novel case that raises First Amendment issues according to The New..…

With the indictment of Julian Assange, the government is advancing legal argument that places such important work in jeopardy and undermines the very purpose of First Amendment... ... Assange's case could set precedent with regard to the kinds of activities that First..…

That makes Assange’s indictment a watershed. . The First Amendment is carved in granite at the U.S. ... First Amendment doctrine does not extend any special protections to the press. . ..…

The Obama administration flirted with erasing that line In court documents, it described a Fox News Washington, James Rosen, as aider, abettor and or co-conspirator in Espionage Act case And the administration reportedly considered bringing charges against Assange. Espionage Act does not..…

Put, these unprecedented charges against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks are the significant and terrifying threat to First Amendment in the century, ment by Freedom of the Press Foundation Executive Director Trevor Timm.. The indictment of Julian Assange under Espionage Act for..…

Wikileaks Julian Assange, thus making the case against him incredibly serious. WASHINGTON, novel case that raises First Amendment issues.. Assange's of government secrets were focused on handful of files that contained the names of people. ..…

In thread on Twitter, Carrie DeCell, First Amendment with Knight Institute, said, The government argues that Assange violated Espionage Act by soliciting, obtaining, ation. ..…

The question is not whether Assange is journalist, except whether the government's theory threatens freedom of the press, Carrie DeCell, attorney at Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, wrote on Twitter.. ..…

WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy organization Assange founded, tweeted, “This is madness. It is the end of national security journalism and the first amendment.” . ..…

WikiLeaks on Twitter called the prosecution the end of journalism and First Amendment... Assange is serving 11-month sentence in U.K for jumping bail in Swedish rape investigation, while U.S pushes its request to extradite him to United States on computer hacking charges revealed April. ..…

Julian Assange, founder of whistleblowing site WikiLeaks, has been charged with more including under Espionage Act — case that will test the rights of freedom of speech and expression under First Amendment.. Assange, 47, was arrested at Ecuadorean London April after U.S government..…

They will succeed in destroying the First Amendment. . Who is there to stop them? ... All are too stupid and full of hate to realize that with Julian Assange goes the First Amendment. . ..…

Rather the wider assault on press freedoms and the attack on Americans First Amendment Rights, UK politicians are debating whether the US extradition claim on Assange should take priority over Swedish extradition proceedings for sexual assault investigation that were dropped back in 2017....…

Still, Obama administration, while critical of Assange, weighed on the side of First Amendment as it realized that charging Assange with crime would call up the central issue of freedom of the press. ..…

This would suggest the government is trying to prove Assange and Wikileaks shifted from mere “publisher” with First Amendment rights to “hacker” or “thief.” . ... Yes, let’s do discuss Assange’s First Amendment rights. . . . . SteveM says: . . ..…

Ecuadorian and Latin American history, Lenin Moreno, allowed British police to enter our London to arrest Assange. By the amendment of the, Trump regime with its grave concern for the human rights of people Venezuela has now decided to step up its war against democracy by attacking the..…

By all those who care about the Freedom of Press Foundation also issued statement, alerting that the charge against Assange is serious threat to press freedom and noted that it should be protested First Amendment... They exposed Ecuadorian government's spying operation against..…

Yesterday's arrest of Assange inside Ecuadorian London is the first stage Washington's attempt to criminalize First Amendment to US Constitution.. ..…

Can you explain, Geoffrey Robertson, your understanding of the precedent that is being set right now with British police going into Ecuadorean Embassy, apparently at the invitation of Ecuador, and taking out Julian Assange. But I think, for Americans who value, as everyone does, your First..…

Trump administration and all too many members of US Congress, may be ready to  trample on First Amendment where Assange is concerned, particularly as he is also being vilified for disclosing the embarrassing emails of Democratic National Committee and of Democratic Hillary Clinton. ..…

The charges against Assange, now in total, that he was publisher receiving leaked material from Manning, action that is protected under US Constitution's First Amendment guaranteeing freedom of the press.. indictment alleges that Assange actively conspired with Manning to steal..…

New York Times piece by Charlie Savage noted that the effort to convict Julian Assange, would raise novel and First Amendment issues.. ..…

news outlets and media users noticed the two references to ' Assange and surmised that the Government had instituted criminal charges against Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. the Government recognizes that First Amendment right-to-access analysis typically depends on what 'type..…

Justice Department filed 17 charges against WikiLeaks Julian Assange on Thursday, deploying Espionage Act as cudgel against First Amendment protections and press freedom. ... I am concerned about the precedent this may set and potential dangers to the work of journalists and First..…

With that in mind, I spoke to James Goodale  —  the famed First Amendment lawyer and former general counsel New York Times, regardless of whether people consider Assange a journalist... ... At the time, the facts concerning Assange with respect to publication of material..…

Attorney Gordon Kromberg said in court filing Monday that Justice Department will neither confirm nor deny whether such charges exist because neither First Amendment nor the law require that the government provide such confirmation or denial.. Kromberg said, Assange has either not been..…

In this war of a tyrannical state on the First Amendment, Assange became a lightning rod to take all the heat, so ordinary people can uphold these ideals that are inscribed in their hearts, defending them against all enemies, foreign and domestic. . ..…

While the exact criminal charges levied against Assange remain secret, the primary issue is whether WikiLeaks is portrayed as organization deserving of First Amendment protections or rather as government agent.. then World War One-era red-baiting law will be used against..…

They seek to charge Assange and WikiLeaks for publishing classified information, although it goes against the guarantee of First Amendment and poses severe threat to press freedom.. ..…

Prosecutors have previously flirted with conspiracy, theft of government authority and purported violations of the Espionage Act, but the Obama administration, for all its enthusiasm in nabbing Assange kept coming up against that irritating bulwark of liberty, some would say impediment, known as the..…

Pompeo, as CIA Director, delivered one of the creepiest and most anti-press-freedom speeches heard in years, vowing that “we have to recognize that we can no longer allow Assange and his colleagues the latitude to use free speech values against us,” adding that WikiLeaks has “pretended that..…