Laura Poitras says the Assange indictment poses a grave threat to press freedom. She's right. 1/x https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/opinion/laura-poitras-assange-espionage-act.html

It doesn’t matter whether Assange himself is a properly described as a journalist. He’s being charged for acts that are integral to national security journalism. 2/x

The Assange indictment was part of the Trump admin’s effort to constrain and demonize the press—an effort that also included describing journalism as fake news, describing journalists as enemies of the people, and embracing foreign tyrants who murder reporters and activists. 3/x

The Biden admin needs to make a clear break with these policies. Here's a list of actions it can take in its first 100 days to reaffirm and strengthen the freedoms of speech and the press. 4/x https://knightcolumbia.org/content/a-first-amendment-agenda-for-the-new-administration

And Poitras is right that the new admin should drop the indictment of Assange. Here's the testimony I filed in the UK proceeding explaining why the indictment is so dangerous. https://www.justsecurity.org/72629/its-assange-in-the-dock-but-its-national-security-journalism-on-trial/ 5/5