Thread by @BenjaminNorton

I wrote about how it is not just Trump, but the media, Obama, Bush, mainstream “human rights” organizations, Republicans and Democrats alike that put the noose around the neck of @WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange — threatening all journalists.
thegrayzone.com/2019/05/24/tru…

The NY Times has spent years demonizing @WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, smearing them as Kremlin tools without any evidence.

Last month, it published this embarrassing article indirectly admitting that there is still no evidence for their bogus attacks.
nytimes.com/2019/04/11/us/…

A CNN columnist published this shameful article last month claiming political prisoner Julian Assange is "not a journalist.” Trump’s assistant attorney general echoed this *exact same language* last night when he announced the indictment.
cnn.com/2019/04/11/opi…

CNN happily regurgitated US government propaganda that portrayed WikiLeaks as a Kremlin asset, implying that Assange was a useful idiot of the dastardly Russians.

This demonization campaign for the past 3 years set the stage for these terrifying charges
cnn.com/2016/10/13/pol…

This CNN analyst, a former FBI special agent, delightedly effused in response to the Trump administration's draconian charges against Assange, “Awwwww yeah.”

This indictment threatens all journalists across the planet. Not that FBI agents would care

https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1131654615383121920

.@Amnesty International also declared that it "does not consider Julian Assange to be a Prisoner of Conscience" (UN human rights experts strongly disagree).

This supposed "human rights" organization added that it “is not actively working on” his case.
wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Hillary Clinton put her stamp of approval on Britain’s arrest of political prisoner and journalist Julian Assange this April, insisting, “he has to answer for what he has done.”

UN human rights experts condemned the arrest and said he should be freed.
cnn.com/2019/04/11/pol…

Even progressive alternative media outlets, like @TMBSFM — which calls itself "the Vanguard of the New Left" — absurdly demonized WikiLeaks as "cryptofascist."

@_MichaelBrooks called political prisoner Julian Assange an "asshole" and a "piece of shit."

And again, although media outlets (including progressive ones) almost always fail to mention this, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has reiterated for over 3 years that Assange has been unjustly detained and must be freed and given compensation
ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/…