![]() A 2010 Christian Science Monitor report on the leak noted that it was “unclear how Americans might react to revelations about apparent indiscriminate killing of Afghan civilians” by American forces. military against Afghan and Iraqi civilians. government after his organization, Wikileaks, disclosed tens of thousands of documents and some videos exposing crimes committed by the U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark warned in 1967, “Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.” At this point, America is an Impunity Democracy in which government officials pay no price for their abuses.Īssange was targeted by the U.S. The last four years have revealed why activists like Assange, who has been held for years in a maximum-security British prison, are vital to any hope of making rulers accountable to the citizenry. ![]() government, he has almost no chance for a fair trial because of how prosecutions are rigged in federal court. He is facing extradition to face 17 counts of violating the Espionage Act for disclosing classified information. Assange has been locked away for years in a maximum-security prison in Britain. My piece failed to sway the Trump White House and the Biden administration has taken up the prosecution of one of the most important truth tellers of this century. Protests will also occur outside the Justice Department headquarters in Washington (I’ll be one of the speakers), D.C., and in San Francisco, Tulsa, Denver, and Seattle, as well as in Australia.įour years ago, I wrote a USA Today column calling for Assange to receive a Presidential Medal of Freedom. In London, Assange supporters will link arms around the parliament building. ![]() On Saturday, protests supporting Julian Assange will occur around the world. ![]()
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