Whether you love the WikiLeaks founder or regard him as a threat to democracy, he is entitled to the presumption of innocence until proven guilty.
The media's refusal to defend the WikiLeaks publisher is a betrayal of press freedom.
"Both well-meaning and more illicit-minded intelligence professionals basically realize [exposures of the inner workings of power] can't go on," the publisher and journalist tells the "On Contact" host in a discussion about attacks on such organizations as WikiLeaks.
The Intercept is reporting that Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno is in London to "finalize an agreement under which Ecuador will withdraw its asylum protection of Julian Assange," exposing him to British arrest.
The arrest of the WikiLeaks founder, which appears near, would be the first domino to fall. Afterward, thousands of publishers, editors and reporters in the U.S. would be in peril.
The Democratic National Committee would rather blame Russia and Julian Assange for the 2016 election disaster than challenge elite corporate interests.
The Democratic Party sues Donald Trump's son, his son-in-law, his campaign, the Russian Federation and WikiLeaks, saying they conspired to undercut Democrats in the 2016 election.
The campaign to gag the WikiLeaks' founder is a bipartisan and bilateral attack on free speech that could lead to a wider assault on all of our freedoms.
A group of high-profile signatories calls on the Ecuadorean government to allow Julian Assange his right of freedom of speech.
The government says it acted because of the WikiLeaks founder's social media posts decrying the arrest of a Catalan separatist politician.
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