WikiLeaks: Julian Assange Hearings - Day 9

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https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/julian-assange-trial-us-trump-chelsea-manning-chomsky-walker-b420930.html

Julian Assange is not on trial for his personality – but here’s how
the US government made you focus on it
By drawing attention away from the principles of the case, the
obsession with his character pushes out the significance of WikiLeaks’
revelations
By Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker

Assange is not on trial for skateboarding in the Ecuadorian embassy.
Assange faces extradition to the United States because he published
incontrovertible proof of war crimes and abuses in Iraq and
Afghanistan, embarrassing the most powerful nation on Earth. Assange
published hard evidence of “the ways in which the first world exploits
the third”, according to whistleblower Chelsea Manning, the source of
that evidence. Assange is on trial for his journalism, for his
principles, not his personality.