Glenn Greenwald has reported that Ecuador will soon withdraw a asylum for Julian Assange

and hand him over to UK authorities. If that happens, there is a possibility that Assange could

be extradited to the US for his work with WikiLeaks. Because as we've heard from this administration

and others, they view WikiLeaks as a criminal organization of some sort. Now, unsurprisingly,

many people on the left are cheering for this because they're claiming that Assange is a Russian

asset because the documents he published in 2016 embarrass the Democrats. But WikiLeaks has embarrassed

both the left and the right. He's been active for quite some time. If he does get extradited,

this could be devastating for press freedoms because WikiLeaks is just a publisher. And though

what they do is a bit more specific from other organizations, they just publish documents.

So why is it that the left has turned on Julian Assange and even Glenn Greenwald? And what will

happen to press freedoms if Julian Assange is extradited? But before we get started,

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my work. From the intercept, Ecuador will imminently withdraw asylum for Julian Assange and hand him

over to the UK what comes next. In the story, they say a source close to the Ecuadorian foreign

ministry and the president's office unauthorized to speak publicly has confirmed to the intercept

that Marano is close to finalizing if he has not already finalized an agreement to hand over Assange

to the UK within the next several weeks, though withdraw of asylum and physical ejection of Assange

could come as early as this week. On Friday, RT reported that Ecuador was preparing to enter into

such an agreement. But consequences of such an agreement depend in part on the concessions

Ecuador strikes in exchange for withdrawing Assange as asylum. But as former Ecuadorian president

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