Flashback: Remember When The Media Loved Assange?

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The media rejected Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for publishing hacked emails allegedly from the Clinton campaign, but it wasn’t long ago that liberal journalists praised Assange as a “patriot” for revealing Bush administration secrets.

Vox Editor-in-Chief and columnist for The Washington Post Ezra Klein defended Assange and whistleblower Edward Snowden throughout several posts in 2013 before changing his stance just three years later.

Klein quoted President Barack Obama when he said that U.S. security is handled “with open debate and democratic process.”  “If that’s so, then Edward Snowden should be hailed as a hero. There’s simply no doubt that his leaks led to more open debate and more democratic process than would’ve existed otherwise,” Klein wrote in a piece published in August, 2013, under the title, “Edward Snowden, patriot.” – READ MORE

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