Assange Is Free, But Feds War On Free Speech Continues – The American Conservative

The fixation on destroying Assange was no aberration for the Trump era. Trump endlessly howled about the Deep State while his appointees persecuted Assange, Edward Snowden, and Daniel Hale, who exposed the civilian carnage from Obama s drone killing program. Trump s Justice Department invoked state secrets to cover up Bush-era torture atrocities and to shroud CIA bankrolling of murderous Syrian terrorist groups (those mischievous moderate rebels). 

Has Trump seen the error of his ways? When he spoke at the Libertarian Party national convention last month, Trump declared, In the last year, I ve been indicted by the government on 91 different things, so if I wasn t a libertarian before, I sure as hell am a libertarian now.  Trump wouldn t have to become a libertarian to recognize the need to leash prosecutors and heartedly respect the First Amendment. But is Trump corrigible? 

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James Bovard.