Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“So they’re really doing it. The Biden administration is really ignoring Australia’s request to end the case against Julian Assange, and they’re proceeding with their campaign to extradite a journalist for telling the truth about US war crimes. In order to move the extradition case forward, per a British high court ruling US prosecutors needed to provide ‘assurances’ that the US would not seek the death penalty and would not deprive Assange of his human right to free speech because of his nationality. The US provided the assurance against the death penalty (which they’d previously opposed doing), and for the free speech assurance they said only that Assange will be able to ‘raise and seek to rely upon’ US First Amendment rights …. Which is basically just saying ‘I mean, you’re welcome to TRY to have free speech protections?'” (04/17/24)