{"id":5015,"date":"2019-04-13T09:14:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T07:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=5015"},"modified":"2019-04-13T09:14:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T07:14:07","slug":"ellsberg-on-assange-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=5015","title":{"rendered":"Ellsberg on Assange arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/articles\/daniel-ellsberg-assanges-arrest-is-the-beginning-of-the-end\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daniel Ellsberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s a very serious assault on the First Amendment. A clear attempt to rescind the freedom of the press, essentially. Up till now we\u2019ve had a dozen or so indictments of sources, of which my prosecution is the very first prosecution of an American for disclosing information to the American public. And that was ended a couple of years later by governmental misconduct. There were two others before President Obama, and nine or so under President Obama, of sources, none of these having been tested in the Supreme Court yet as to their relation to the First Amendment. Hasn\u2019t gone to them.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first indictment of a journalist and editor or publisher, Julian Assange. And if it\u2019s successful it will not be the last.\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I see on the indictment, which I\u2019ve just read, that one of the charges is that he encouraged Chelsea Manning and Bradley Manning to give him documents, more documents, after she had already given him hundreds of thousands of files. Well, if that\u2019s a crime, then journalism is a crime, because just on countless occasions I have been harassed by journalists for documents, or for more documents than I had yet given them. So they\u2013none of them have been put on trial up till now. But in this case, if that\u2019s all it takes, then no journalist is safe. The freedom of the press is not safe. It\u2019s over. And I think our republic is in its last days, because unauthorized disclosures of this kind are the lifeblood of a republic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Ellsberg: It\u2019s a very serious assault on the First Amendment. A clear attempt to rescind the freedom of the press, essentially. Up till now we\u2019ve had a dozen or so indictments of sources, of which my prosecution is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=5015\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}