This debate has spanned the decade: Is Julian Assange a villainous hack working in concert with countries that regularly squash a free press? Or is he a symbol of freedom of speech and the public's right to know?
The debate is back on now that Assange has been arrested in the UK and charged in the US -- not under the Espionage Act for publishing classified material, as many press freedom advocates had feared, but under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
"Regarding the assertion from Snowden that the Obama administration refused to charge Assange:"The Justice Department had struggled for years with the question of whether Assange and WikiLeaks should be treated as journalists and publishers," Perez wrote."News organizations similarly published stolen classified documents; some even worked with WikiLeaks to get access to documents and publish stories.
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