Assange is wanted on charges of sexual assault in Sweden and charges of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion in the U.S. He allegedly helped Army private Chelsea Manning illegally obtain a password that led Manning to leak hundreds of thousands of classified documents to Assange for WikiLeaks to publish.
The difference there was rather than publish news about the CIA's behavior and the targets against which the tools were employed, Assange and WikiLeaks published the actual computer software.
For the first time in history, the government obtained a court order enjoining further publication by the Times.
A year before publication of the matter, a CIA leaker informed the New York Times about the agencies' actions, and the Times' reporters, James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, began writing stories about it.
In 2005, meetings were held at the Times' offices during which top Bush administration officials attempted unsuccessfully to persuade the Times staff to not publish the stories.
The difference between what the Times did and what Assange did is not only the fact that the Times is a newspaper and its reporters are journalists.
First, the Times and its reporters were intentionally exposing top-secret information by writing up and publishing the government's actions.
https://spectator.org/prisoner-assange/
The difference there was rather than publish news about the CIA's behavior and the targets against which the tools were employed, Assange and WikiLeaks published the actual computer software.
For the first time in history, the government obtained a court order enjoining further publication by the Times.
A year before publication of the matter, a CIA leaker informed the New York Times about the agencies' actions, and the Times' reporters, James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, began writing stories about it.
In 2005, meetings were held at the Times' offices during which top Bush administration officials attempted unsuccessfully to persuade the Times staff to not publish the stories.
The difference between what the Times did and what Assange did is not only the fact that the Times is a newspaper and its reporters are journalists.
First, the Times and its reporters were intentionally exposing top-secret information by writing up and publishing the government's actions.
https://spectator.org/prisoner-assange/
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