Assange, Extradition and Unique Opportunities

As I noted yesterday, we still don’t know the fullness of what is happening to Julian Assange in the US legal system. He’s charged with what is essentially a hacking conspiracy. That’s much more legitimate than trying to charge him with publishing classified information. But it also seems like more charges are potentially in store. Those could potentially trample over these bright lines between things that are fairly straightforward crimes (hacking) and others that are much more like journalism (whether or not we consider Assange himself to be a journalist). So to me the jury is really still what is happening and whether it’s legitimate.