'It could happen to you. It could happen to any one of us,' Gabbard said, referencing the arrest of Julian Assange.
Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard has said she believes that criminal charges in the U.S. against Julian Assange and Edward Snowden should be dropped.
“We have got to address why [Snowden] did things the way that he did them,” she said. “You hear the same thing from Chelsea Manning, how there is not an actual channel for whistleblowers like them to bring forward information that exposes egregious abuses of our constitutional rights and liberties, period. There was not a channel for that to happen in a real way and that’s why they ended up taking the path that they did, and suffering the consequences.
Edward Snowden speaks via video link to participants of the 'MCI alumni and friends' conference at the Congress Innsbruck on October 18, 2018 in Innsbruck, Austria. Jan Hetfleisch/Getty Images Assange, whose organization helped facilitate Snowden's escape, was dramatically arrested last month and has been charged with conspiracy to commit computer hacking for “agreeing to break a password to a classified U.S. government computer,” the justice department said.
“The fact that the Trump administration has chosen to ignore how important it is that we uphold our freedoms… and go after him, it has a very chilling effect on both journalists and publishers… and also on every one of us as Americans. It was a warning call…saying 'look what happened to this guy.' It could happen to you. It could happen to any one of us.”
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