I agree that Assange has been subject to "aggressive targeted prosecution" (at the very least), he was repeatedly playing close to the edge and intelligence com

I agree that Assange has been subject to "aggressive targeted prosecution" (at the very least), he was repeatedly playing close to the edge and intelligence community bureaucrats were threatened by politically embarrassing info appearing in western media and decided to make an example of him. IMHO, determining whether he was actually guilty of the crimes he was charged with isn't all that clear since it depends on some fairly subtle interpretation. Suffice to say, that without the intense high-level political pressure being constantly applied Assange would not be incarcerated today as he would either have won in court or convicted on a substantially lesser crime. Thus, I don't think it matters much whether he's technically guilty. To me, the key meta-point is that the things Assange leaked weren't of much actionable value to the military enemy. Most of what Assange (and Snowden) leaked were already known or reasonably assumed by military adversaries.