May 23rd: Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, 17 charges U.S. indictment. Q3341. “a direct assault on the 1st Amendment. It establishes a dangerous precedent that can be used to target all news organizations that hold the government accountable by publishing its secrets,” said Ben Wizner, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project. WikiLeaks gave a more pungent response. “This is madness,” the group said on Twitter. “It is the end of national security journalism and the 1st Amendment.” John Demers, the Justice Department’s top national security official, defended the decision to prosecute. If convicted, Assange faces a maximum of 10 years in prison on each count except for conspiracy to commit computer intrusion which has a maximum penalty of five years. https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-julian-assange-indictment-wikileaks-20190523-story.html https://www.foxnews.com/us/julian-assange-indicted-18-counts-coordinating-manning-leak-classified-national-security-docs https://i.postimg.cc/KYXDrsZH/Wiki-Leaks-From-the-people-For-the-people-Funded-and-defended-by.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/Hxd0Fc80/Wiki-Leaks-Journalistic-tool.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/NFP1ydJb/Wiki-Leaks-Pease-can-be-started-by-truth.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/d0mrRsNh/Wiki-Leaks-The-truth-shall-set-us-free.jpg https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-charged-18-count-superseding-indictment https://archive.fo/m1YLn !!mG7VJxZNCI 23 May 2019 - 7:01:32 PM 6572364 (/pb) Under protection. Threat is real. Key to DNC 'source' 'hack' '187'. Q