The American press has remained in denial for 40 years--since my case--that the Espionage Act has wording that could be aimed directly at them. Now they're staring down the barrel of that Act, which could be used against American journalists and publishers for doing journalism.
Democracy Now! @democracynow
17 Sep 2020
Pentagon Papers whistleblower @DanielEllsberg says Julian Assange's extradition trial puts U.S. journalists at risk. "The American press is staring right down the barrel at the use of the Espionage Act against American journalists and publishers for doing journalism."

Daniel Ellsberg on Julian Assange extradition trial

Daniel Ellsberg is a former defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971.

Sep 17, 2020 · 2:37 PM UTC

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Replying to @DanielEllsberg @aaronjmate
The problem is that not only American journalists are at risk. #assange
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Replying to @DanielEllsberg @liamcunningham1
👏So true! And Julian Assange will be used as a scapegoat and his punishment will be toward journalists who tells the truth. They want to silence and/or cut down as much as the 1st Amendment as they can.
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Replying to @DanielEllsberg @ClassConscious1
The US only wants to protect the journalists who collaborate with the military industrial complex and parrot their narrative. I have a series of historical quizzes on my page that readers may be interested in taking. Here's one of about a dozen:
Bookbirb @comradebirb
17 Sep 2020
PLS VOTE & RT After the 1991 Gulf War, Richard Haas of the Bush I Administration's National Security Council, thanked a group for being "our chief tool in selling our policy." Was he referring to:
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Replying to @DanielEllsberg @gaijingirl2004
And, as the Assange case makes clear, not just American ones. Any nationality in any country may be at risk of extradition and prison if the US govt gets its way.
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Replying to @DanielEllsberg @kgosztola
Thank you Mr. Ellsberg. I read your work long ago. It opened the eyes of this young man about the government.
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Replying to @DanielEllsberg @FromSteveHowell
Serious stuff! From Vietnam to Assange.
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↓ The American press has remained in denial for 40 years--since my case--that the Espionage Act has wording that could be aimed directly at them. Now they're staring down the barrel of that Act, which could be used against American journalists & publishers for doing journalism.
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Replying to @DanielEllsberg @alimay101234
It's time to repeal the Espionage Act, which was passed in June 1917 and made it a crime for any person to interfere with the U.S. armed forces in World War I. This Act has no relevance in 2020 & is only being used to subvert free speech and democracy.
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Replying to @DanielEllsberg @CassandraRules
Most of the fake press aren't worried because they're not really journalists and they know they'll tow any line no matter how ridiculous and therefore this will never hurt them.
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Replying to @DanielEllsberg @kari_rothermel
I am not free. BECAUSE OF TRUMP. Pass it on.
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