“It is possible that future administrations could take this case as encouragement to pursue the press under the Espionage Act. It is likely that an emboldened second Trump administration would do so.”
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The Guardian editors, expressing grave concern that the deal to free
WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange in exchange for a guilty plea is “good for Assange, not journalism.” Now precedent, the U.S. can prosecute journalists who surface or distribute damning information under the archaic
Espionage Act, they warn.
