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matter, the London Guardian Observer who used this.
Assange, after all, who's not an American citizen, is being faced with extradition by the British to
a country, to another country for having allegedly violated its laws on security. Now, a lot of
countries have laws even a lot tougher than ours on security. In China, imagine how this could
be applied elsewhere. So in this case, Assange backed off from charging Assange rather than
charging The New York Times as well, who had published the same material.
The ACLU, (American Civil Liberties Union is a nonprofit organization founded in 1920 "to
defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this ),
warned, at the beginning of this administration, that this president was very likely to extend the
law further to apply to journalists and publishers for the first time, and that is what we see with
Assange. And the very fact, that you mentioned earlier, that some journalists have chosen to
remain aloof from this on the grounds that he's not really a journalist, as Bill Keller put it in The
New York Times, not a journalist as he could see it.
The fact is that if he is extradited and prosecuted here in the current climate, I would say he
would almost surely be convicted. We couldn't count on the Supreme Court to recognize that
this was a clear violation of the First Amendment and we wouldn't have a First Amendment
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