There she debated what to do with the war logs, contacted both New York Times and Washington Post, and when that did not work out, she submitted the documents on February to WikiLeaks so the documents would be made public.. ..…

'But in 2013, the Obama DOJ concluded that it could not prosecute Assange in connection with the publication of those documents because there was no way to distinguish what WikiLeaks did from what the New York Times, The Guardian, and numerous media outlets around the world..…

In an editorial board statement yesterday, the New York Times wrote: . “The government charged Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, not with publishing classified government information, but with stealing it, skirting—for now—critical First Amendment questions.” ...…