Don't get me wrong I've posted on freeing Assange and pardoning him in the past - I've begun to rethink all that - He is a useful tool for our enemies - this requires a delicate touch - I would say find patriotic folks in the Intelligence Community (stop laughing) and get their assessment if it is wise to let him out of the bathroom - then pawn him off to Australia in return for all those refugees Obama signed us up for.
It has gotten to where secrets really aren’t. Or at least weren’t. Assange was a collator and not, technically, a spy. He might be useful as a counter-counter agent — getting us closer to actual spies. I feel Assange was more like a kind of principled blabbermouth, thinking the more truth out there the better. And he did let us know there were spies, alright. As well as a boatload of dirt on the Dems. Much less on the GOP.