Leaders of NYT & 4 European news outlets have called on the US govt to drop charges against Julian Assange for soliciting/publishing classified information. (Case is about the 2010 @xymanning-leaked DOD/State files, not the 2016 Russia-hacked Dem emails). nytimes.com/2022/11/28/us/…
Here is the joint open letter: nytco.com/press/an-open-… NYT company spokesperson says the institutional decision to participate was made by the publisher (@AGSNYT) in consultation with the legal department (@davidmccraw). The newsroom (@nycscribe) was not involved.
@charlie_savage @xymanning News good for @elonmusk too
@charlie_savage @xymanning No Just no
@charlie_savage @xymanning Assange is a hero. Freedom of information - on Iraq, on chicanery in politics and more - needed all the help it could get. Now the narration police curate undisturbed and from the tone of comments here, many are adamant about sitting smug in their information bubble.
@charlie_savage @xymanning No! Worked with RU GRU to interfere with US election. Released hacked @DNC emails during Dem Convention to cause maximum damage. Media helped by making a huge deal of the emails that said nothing, other than obvious: @SenSanders was a nightmare. And he blamed Seth Rich! SHAME
@charlie_savage @xymanning Charlie surely you don’t agree with this naive (at best) decision? Assange is a spy, not a journalist.
@charlie_savage @xymanning 😂🤣 Learning too late and many dollars short. Sooner or later the same treatment will be meted out to all those who currently feel ascendant.