> because the country whose war crimes you exposed is trying to lock you in a dungeon for life and/or assassinate you
Maybe the plea deal should be an opportunity to reevaluate these hyperbolic claims regarding the potential punishment that awaited Assange.
>Our government has been the bad guy every step of the way in this whole affair.
And that was the exact lack of nuance I was criticizing. One side being a bad guy does not make the other side a good guy. There is no excuse for the way Assange eventually abandoned any form of journalistic ethics.
