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Freeing Assange
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While dictators kill troublesome journalists with guns and missiles, democracies can afford to be more patient. But the end result is the same.
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America’s greatest investigative journalist believed in letting the truth be told, even over the protest of state officials. But what would he make of WikiLeaks’s secret-telling?
If Assange’s Fate Were Up To a Jury, He, Too, Might Have Walked Free If Assange’s Fate Were Up To a Jury, He, Too, Might Have Walked Free
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Politics
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