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Here's our article: the U.S. Government's indictment of Julian Assange poses grave threats to press freedoms interc.pt/2UNA53c
As we detail, today's reporting has relied on 2 myths deliberately propagated by the DOJ press release: 1) Trump DOJ found new evidence against Assange (no: it's all been public for years); 2) the indictment alleged Assange tried to help Manning "hack" (no: just avoid detection).
For people who have spent 3 years claiming that (1) WikiLeaks is an arm of Russian intelligence and (2) Putin controls Trump, how do you reconcile those conspiracy beliefs with the fact that it was the Trump administration that devoted itself with such vigor to indicting Assange? 
Outstanding @TulsiGabbard interview with @JakeTapper as she explains what makes the Trump DOJ's indictment and extradition of Julian Assange so dangerous to press freedoms but also to general political liberties:
