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Trump’s ‘War on Journalism’ Takes Center Stage at Julian Assange’s Extradition Hearing
By Kevin Gosztola Global Research, September 13, 2020
9 September 2020
Region: USA
Theme: Law and Justice, Media Disinformation
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In the last half-century, journalists James Bamford, Ben Bradlee, Seymour Hersh, and Neil Sheehan were each threatened with prosecution under the Espionage Act. But the U.S. government never followed through with Espionage Act charges against a journalist until 2019, when WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested and charged.
Trevor Timm, the executive director for the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), told a magistrate court judge, “[President Donald] Trump’s administration is moving to explicitly criminalize national security journalism, and if this prosecution is allowed to go forward, dozens of reporters at the New York Times, Washington Post and elsewhere would also be in danger.”
FPF is a nonprofit organization that Timm said “protects, defends, and empowers public interest journalism in the 21st century.” It developed SecureDrop, an “open-source platform for secure communications between sources and media organizations.” https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-war-journalism-julian-assange-extradition-hearing/5723672