> continued reporting and was eventually cleared Comparing these two cases is not as simple as that. Risen refused to name sources for his book and did so till

> continued reporting and was eventually cleared Comparing these two cases is not as simple as that. Risen refused to name sources for his book and did so till the end. The only reason it didn't go further, and he didn't go to jail, was because of an arbitrary decision further up the chain that was already publicly signaled ahead of the hearing [0] Assagne is spending time in jail right now, for years he was in a self-imposed jail over fabricated accusations, with the US actively violating his rights in every way they could, down to violation the client-attorney privilege. Nothing out of the US signals that he will get a fair trail, everything suggests he would most likely be made out as a an political example, as he has been and currently is. [0] https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2014/10/holder-sees-resolution-in-risen-case-197829 https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2014/10/holde...