Explain why they pursued Julian Assange then.

Based on your own logic then Assange did not have any requirement to protect classified information yet he was Public Enemy number one.

I know people who personally sat on the Edward Snowden board and spent years of their life trying to create a case within the intelligence community against this guy

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vel0city 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> Explain why they pursued Julian Assange then.

There is a difference between someone essentially just handing you a pile of classified documents and you going around soliciting and encouraging people to break the law and mishandle the documents to give to you.

	▲	lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> mishandle the documents https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2011-09-28/the-dangerous-cult-... > The low point in Leigh’s role in this saga is divulging in his own book a complex password Assange had created to protect a digital file containing the original and unedited embassy cables. Each was being carefully redacted before publication by several newspapers, including the Guardian. > This act of – in the most generous interpretation of Leigh’s behavior – gross stupidity provided the key for every security agency in the world to open the file. Leigh has accused Wikileaks of negligence in allowing a digital copy of the file to be available. Whether true, his own role in the affair is far more inexcusable. > His and the Guardian’s recklessness in disclosing the password was compounded by their negligent decision to contact neither Assange nor Wikileaks before publication of Leigh’s book to check whether the password was still in use. > [The Guardian] made no mention either of Leigh’s role in revealing the password or of Wikileaks’ point that, following Leigh’s incompetence, every security agency and hacker in the world had access to the file’s contents. Better, Wikileaks believed, to create a level playing field and allow everyone access to the cables, thereby letting informants know whether they had been named and were in danger. Jonathan Cook does a good job of telling this story. https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2013-07-29/the-assassination-o... https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2022-05-04/persecution-julian-...