Ahead of a critical extradition hearing, former Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger — who worked with Julian Assange to break bombshell stories — argues the WikiLeaks founder should be viewed as a journalist.
Imagine this. A determined American journalist, let’s call her Gillian, is sleuthing away at a story about India’s nuclear weapons program. But there’s a problem: the Indian Official Secrets Act of 1923. Though Gillian is based in London, when she finally gets to publish her story, the Indian government is bent on revenge. Gillian has to be made an example of, so that no other journalist would dare follow in her footsteps.
It wasn’t long before Clinton realized that this new samizdat publishing system was — literally — uncontrollable. Even by her own government. Along with The Guardian, a handful of other established news organizations around the world — The New York Times, El País, Le Monde and Der Spiegel — worked with Assange on the vast spill of documents that Chelsea Manning collected while working for the US Army.
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