9/21/23 Trevor Timm on Assange, the Espionage Act and Growing Pressure from the Australians

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Scott Horton

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🗓️ 24 September 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Trevor Timm of the Freedom of the Press Foundation joins the show to give an overview of the U.S.’s case against Julian Assange. They look back at why Obama was uncharacteristically reluctant to charge Assange. That brings them to the current case, brought by the Trump Administration and continued by Biden. They explain the case, debunk the common characterization of Assange as a hacker and finish with a quick look at why Australian officials may be the best chance for an Assange pardon. Discussed on the show: “Prosecuting Assange threatens press freedom. US officials should not need the Australians to explain that to them” (Freedom of the Press Foundation) Trevor Timm is a co-founder and the executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. He is a journalist, activist, and lawyer whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, USA Today, The Atlantic, and many others. Follow him on Twitter @trevortimm. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
0:02.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.
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0:14.8	editorial director of anti-war.com.
0:17.6	Author of the book, Pools Arran,
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0:38.6	interview archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. time I have on the line Trevor Tim he is the executive director of the Freedom of the
0:55.8	Press Foundation and they have the excellent you are all freedom dot press
1:01.8	welcome back to the show. How you doing Trevor?
1:03.4	Thanks for having me back Scott. It's good to be back. Yeah man good to have you
1:07.6	here and well what a great site you guys have here I've been trolling through it this morning you got
1:13.2	lots of great stuff but of course I want to talk with you all about Julian Assange
1:16.4	who's Julian Assange and why should anyone listening to this care about that?
1:22.3	Well I'm guessing most your listeners know who Julian
1:24.7	Sange is, but for those who don't, of course, he is the founder of the
1:30.6	whistleblowing and transparency site WikiLeaks,
1:36.1	which started back in 2007, 2008,
1:40.3	and most famously released hundreds of thousands of war logs from Iraq and Afghanistan and 2010 and then State Department cables that same year.
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