This week on SkullduggeryPod, Isikoff and dklaidman talk to top Obama intelligence lawyer Robert Litt, who praised the way the Trump DOJ handled the indictment of Julian Assange. Litt called it 'very shrewd' for skirting First Amendment issues
WASHINGTON — The former top lawyer for the U.S. intelligence community under President Barack Obama is praising the Justice Department indictment of Julian Assange, calling it a “very shrewd” charge that avoids infringing on freedom of the press issues that stymied his Obama administration colleagues.
“And the question has always raised, How do you differentiate Julian Assange from the New York Times and the Washington Post?” “I think it has been significant that virtually all of the big media have been leaping on this as saying, well you know, this is fine, we wouldn't do anything like this,” Litt said about what Assange is accused of doing.
Litt’s perspective is noteworthy given that he was in the middle of an intense Obama administration debate about how to treat Assange after WikiLeaks published hundreds of thousands of classified documents supplied by Manning about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and State Department cables that included embarrassing details about corruption and abuses in governments around the world. Many of these documents were then published by the New York Times and other major U.S.
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