The Assange Espionage Charges and Press Freedom

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 28, 2019

Fred Kaplan, Slate's national security columnist and author of Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War (Simon & Schuster, 2016), and Suzanne Nossel, chief executive officer of PEN America, a human rights and free expression organization, discuss federal espionage charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and its implications for journalists and freedom of the press.

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