Looks like the jig is up for Julian Assange. He's on his way to a US court for revealing US war crimes.
Revealing US war crimes is treason. Assange is guilty of releasing the video of US helicopters machine-gunning unarmed Iraqi civilians, included two Reuters employees, provided to Wikileaks by Chelsea Manning.
We haven't heard from our Foreign Minister yet, but her British partner in the upcoming Press Freedom Summit, Jeremy Hunt, has been all over UK media harrumphing his delight at this turn of events.
There are multiple levels of irony in play here. Governments that hide their war crimes, including the wanton murder of journalists, by silencing and prosecuting whistle-blowers, are by definition unfit to be lecturing anyone about "press freedom."
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