Speaking of U.K.-U.S. ‘Rules-Based Democracy’: How About Assange?

Edward Snowden responded to Tony Blinken’s pious statement about U.S. advocacy for “press freedom, the safety of journalists worldwide, and access to information on and offline” on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day yesterday, with a reality check: What about Julian Assange? “This would be more persuasive if the White House weren’t aggressively seeking an 175-year sentence for the publisher of award-winning journalism of global importance—despite pleas from every significant press freedom and human rights organization:https://nytimes.com/2021/02/12/us/politics/julian-assange-extradition.html...” wrote Snowden.https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1389337718530969604