> I'm not going to accuse you of being a political actor, Then don't bring it up, it doesn't add to the discussion. > he is charged with a relatively minor c

> I'm not going to accuse you of being a political actor, Then don't bring it up, it doesn't add to the discussion. > he is charged with a relatively minor criminal offense stemming from his assistance in attempting to crack a password hash to gain unauthorized access to military computers That was only the first charge he was indicted on. > Imagine hiding from a 5 year max sentence for 10 years. Assange currently faces up to 170 years in prison. He was hiding from a one of the worlds largest perpetrators of targeted assassination, one which we know has debated assassinating him at its highest levels. > As for Reality, she really could not have transitioned in Russia and China regardless of prison, that was the point you missed. You seem to be confused. Reality Winner did not change genders and was not working for the military when she leaked documents to the Intercept. > I do think that the idea of classification and state secrets have merit Just because there is merit to the idea doesn't mean that everything that gets classified deserves that classification, nor does it mean that the government doesn't use that classification infrastructure to hide things that the American public needs to know about. The prosecution of Assange absolutely represents an unacceptable expansion of the USA'a ability to suppress such information.