{"id":56714,"date":"2021-02-10T09:21:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T14:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56714"},"modified":"2021-02-10T09:26:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T14:26:20","slug":"biden-continues-trumps-war-on-the-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56714","title":{"rendered":"Biden Continues Trump\u2019s War On The Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/02\/10\/biden-continues-trumps-war-on-the-press\/\">Biden Continues Trump\u2019s War On The Press<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-9506\" class=\"post-9506 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-trump tag-assange tag-biden tag-espionage-act tag-extradition tag-journalism\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\">\n<article id=\"post-9506\" class=\"post-9506 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-trump tag-assange tag-biden tag-espionage-act tag-extradition tag-journalism\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-10-at-10.06.13-AM.jpg?fit=1200%2C674&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-10-at-10.06.13-AM.jpg?w=1440&amp;ssl=1 1440w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-10-at-10.06.13-AM.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-10-at-10.06.13-AM.jpg?resize=768%2C431&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-10-at-10.06.13-AM.jpg?resize=1024%2C575&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-10-at-10.06.13-AM.jpg?resize=1200%2C674&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>Just one day after a coalition of prominent civil rights groups\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/SuZp6\">made headlines<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/int.nyt.com\/data\/documenttools\/rights-group-coalition-letter-urging-biden-doj-to-drop-assange-case\/8a13d5a530095258\/full.pdf\">a letter<\/a>\u00a0urging the Biden administration to drop efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States on espionage charges, the Biden administration has announced its intention to continue those efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJustice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi on Tuesday said the U.S. government will continue to challenge a British judge\u2019s ruling last month that Assange should not be extradited to the United States because of the risk he would commit suicide,\u201d\u00a0<em>Reuters<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-justice-assange-idUSKBN2A92T4\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to seek his extradition,\u201d Raimondi said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1359256834830454785&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2021%2F02%2F10%2Fbiden-continues-trumps-war-on-the-press%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=889aa01%3A1612811843556&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1359256834830454785\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Assange\u2019s arrest and subsequent charges under the Espionage Act in 2019 for what amount to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2019\/04\/11\/the-u-s-governments-indictment-of-julian-assange-poses-grave-threats-to-press-freedoms\/\">standard journalistic practices<\/a>\u00a0which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/assange-faces-extradition-for-exposing-us-war-crimes\/\">exposed US war crimes<\/a>\u00a0marked both a dramatic escalation in the US empire\u2019s war on critical national security journalism and a sharp divergence from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/11\/16\/as-the-obama-doj-concluded-prosecution-of-julian-assange-for-publishing-documents-poses-grave-threats-to-press-freedom\/\">the Obama administration\u2019s decision<\/a>\u00a0not to pursue such charges in this case. Biden is not just upholding Trump\u2019s assault on press freedoms (far and away the single most egregious attack on journalism in the 45th president\u2019s entire four years in office), he is rejecting the Obama administration\u2019s decision not to charge Assange due to concerns that it would erode the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0<em>The Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/a69AQ\">reported<\/a>\u00a0during Barack Obama\u2019s second term in 2013:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Justice Department has all but concluded it will not bring charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing classified documents because government lawyers said they could not do so without also prosecuting U.S. news organizations and journalists, according to U.S. officials.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden Continues Trump\u2019s War On The Press Just one day after a coalition of prominent civil rights groups\u00a0made headlines\u00a0with\u00a0a letter\u00a0urging the Biden administration to drop efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States on espionage charges, the Biden administration has announced its intention to continue those efforts. \u201cJustice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3306,17039,7844,1320,462,2001,938,827,3142],"class_list":["post-56714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-barack-obama","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-biden","tag-journalism","tag-julian-assange","tag-press-freedom","tag-united-states","tag-us-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56715,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56714\/revisions\/56715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}