Also, if Assange is arrested then why are not our journalists around the world not subject to arrest by other countries if they report on what their governments are up to?
Apples to oranges. Assange had a major impact on our national security interests. He did more than report on what our government was up to. He divulged our sources and methods to enemy intelligence services and put the lives of our allies and even our own people at risk.
The disclosures “equip our adversaries with tools and information to do us harm,” said Ryan Trapani, a spokesman for the C.I.A. There was, he added, a “massive, massive difference” between the leak of classified C.I.A. cyberspying tools and personal emails of political figures.
Assange may or may not have placed people’s lives at risk. But so does anyone who reports any information that is deemed so sensitive by a third party. It has to go all the way. It’s not just about him.
What sophistry. He did place lives at risk with that information and could cause us all future harm given the leak of the tools we use to penetrate the defenses of our adversaries. Don't you get it? This is very serious yet you seem to have no basic understanding of what is at stake. Maybe my 36 years of experience in that arena gives me unique insights, but anyone with common sense can understand how significant and serious this is. Giving Assange a pass because he leaked documents from the DNC and Podesta is dangerous. It ignores the damage he has done to the security of this country in other areas.
You did it again. You assigned motives to me I do not have.
I am not giving Assange a pass because he leaked DNC and Podesta. In fact I have repeatedly said that this is not really about Assange at all for me (which you repeatedly ignore).
For me it is about a larger principal, which is, if we can apply our laws to non-citizens then basically we are making everyone in the world de-facto citizens of the USA. That is a 2 way street. This gives power and impetus to the one-world government types.