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Trump’s Justice Department Uses Julian Assange as Stalking Horse to Make Journalism a Crime

STALKING HORSE

The administration argues Assange isn't a journalist, in the hope his unpopularity will make people forget why we can’t have the government deciding who counts as a journalist.

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