A New Indictment for Assange

As you know, the government is in the process of asking Britain to extradite Julian Assange to this country. Today we learned that he will be charged with publishing stolen material. Up until now, that has not been illegal in the USA. All the newspapers do it. Free speech and all that. 

Assange helped elect Donald Trump, and I wish the worst for the two men but not at the expense of the Ten Amendments.

Rachel Maddow seems to think the Brits will refuse to extradite Assange in order to protect free speech. I have no idea why she thinks that. Britain has never had the protections for free speech than we do. Quite recently they enacted a new and even more severe publication code, which will be headed by a regulator with strong powers. 

All three major parties supported the stringent regulation of the British press. They have no problems with nudity, but issues are another matter. Fines for defamation will be higher. There will be stronger rules about what may be published on national security.