The Julian Assange case is the most important battle for press freedom in our time (RT OP-ED)
Assange exposed more than 15,000 unreported deaths of Iraqi civilians at the hands of the US military, the torture of 800 men and boys at Guantánamo Bay and revealed the murder of two Reuters reporters, plus so much more — so what exactly is the Wikileaks founder’s crime?
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges explains how the Assange case is setting a legal precedent that will effectively end national security reporting as we know it.
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