Tlaib Leads Letter to DOJ to Drop Charges Against Julian Assange; Defends Freedom of Press

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76. That's based on Assange's claim that his leaking documents

provided by Russia is "journalism" and that he is a journalist and prosecuting him is an attack on free press.

Today's problems almost entirely result from the failure of people to hold to ethical and workable standards and limits, for ourselves and our institutions. The free press argument requires a very degraded, corrupted, and cynically self serving view of what freedom of the press necessary to a free society should be. I can't speak for the others, but the NYT's political corruption supporting RW power has been intensively studied, measured, and reported by organizations that do just that, and in these troubled times it's still considered by many to be the best newspaper on the planet. It reflects its readers' failure to maintain standards as well, an interactive thing.

Btw, this is how Russia (and the Republicans), set out to destroy the democracies they intend to take over -- by injecting corruption that destroys function and trust in their institutions.