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Podcast: NBTV: Your Money, Your Data, Your Life
Episode: Julian Assange Arrested: Freedom of Press, Bitcoin and Wikileaks
Description: This morning Julian Assange was dragged out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and arrested in relation to a US extradition request for "conspiracy with Chelsea Manning".The allegation is that Assange tried and failed to help crack a password, and this is an allegation for which the Obama administration tried to find evidence for many years, without success. Snowden remarked "The weakness of the US charge against Assange is shocking", and previously Obama's DOJ refused to charge the same count, saying it endangered journalism. The DOJ has justified the prosecution of Assange by saying that his request for "more...