The Shameful Attacks on Julian Assange - David Samuels - International

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The Shameful Attacks on Julian Assange
by David Samuels

Dec 3 2010

Julian Assange and Pfc Bradley Manning have done a huge public service by making hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. government documents available on Wikileaks — and, predictably, no one is grateful. Manning, a former army intelligence analyst in Iraq, faces up to 52 years in prison. He is currently being held in solitary confinement at a military base in Quantico, Virginia, where he is not allowed to see his parents or other outside visitors."

The Shameful Attacks on Julian Assange - David Samuels - International - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/12/the-shameful-attacks-on-julian-assange/67440

"But the truly scandalous and shocking response to the Wikileaks documents has been that of other journalists, who make the Obama Administration sound like the ACLU. In a recent article in The New Yorker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Steve Coll sniffed that “the archives that WikiLeaks has published are much less significant than the Pentagon Papers were in their day” while depicting Assange as a “self-aggrandizing control-freak” whose website “lacks an ethical culture that is consonant with the ideals of free media.” Channeling Richard Nixon, Coll labeled Wikileaks’ activities - formerly known as journalism - by his newly preferred terms of “vandalism” and “First Amendment-inspired subversion.”"

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