{"id":12526,"date":"2019-05-24T10:18:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T14:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=12526"},"modified":"2019-05-24T10:30:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T14:30:53","slug":"edward-snowden-doj-declared-war-on-journalism-by-charging-julian-assange-with-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/edward-snowden-doj-declared-war-on-journalism-by-charging-julian-assange-with-espionage\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden: DOJ &#8216;declared war&#8217; on journalism by charging Julian Assange with espionage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screenshot_2019-05-24-Edward-Snowden-DOJ-declared-war-on-journalism-by-charging-Julian-Assange-with-espionage-1024x575.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screenshot_2019-05-24-Edward-Snowden-DOJ-declared-war-on-journalism-by-charging-Julian-Assange-with-espionage-1024x575.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screenshot_2019-05-24-Edward-Snowden-DOJ-declared-war-on-journalism-by-charging-Julian-Assange-with-espionage-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screenshot_2019-05-24-Edward-Snowden-DOJ-declared-war-on-journalism-by-charging-Julian-Assange-with-espionage-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screenshot_2019-05-24-Edward-Snowden-DOJ-declared-war-on-journalism-by-charging-Julian-Assange-with-espionage.png 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Washington Examiner<\/strong>, by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/daniel-chaitin\">Daniel Chaitin<\/a> &#8212; May 23, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Edward Snowden said the Justice Department declared &#8220;war&#8221; on  journalism after accusing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of violating  the Espionage Act.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Federal prosecutors <\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-accused-of-violating-the-espionage-act\" target=\"_blank\"><em>filed<\/em><\/a><em>  a new 18-count indictment against Assange on Thursday, adding 17 counts  to the single count that was unsealed in early April, alleging he  unlawfully received and leaked information related to national defense.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Snowden <\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Snowden\/status\/1131657973745496066\" target=\"_blank\"><em>reacted<\/em><\/a><em>  on Twitter. &#8220;The Department of Justice just declared war\u2014\u20ac not on  Wikileaks, but on journalism itself. This is no longer about Julian  Assange: This case will decide the future of media.&#8221; he said.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including links at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Examiner, by Daniel Chaitin &#8212; May 23, 2019 Excerpt: Edward Snowden said the Justice Department declared &#8220;war&#8221; on journalism after accusing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of violating the Espionage Act. Federal prosecutors filed a new 18-count indictment against Assange &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/edward-snowden-doj-declared-war-on-journalism-by-charging-julian-assange-with-espionage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12529,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12526\/revisions\/12529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}