Biden’s stunning hypocrisy on imprisoned journalists

 Biden’s stunning hypocrisy on imprisoned journalists

The Biden administration conducted a day’s long PR campaign trumpeting its negotiated release of NY Times journalist Evan Gershkovich along with 3 other Americans from Russian prisons.

Biden said he moved ‘Heaven and Earth’… check that, it was 8 convicted Russian criminals, to obtain the release of Gershkovich who had been imprisoned by Russia for 16 months on espionage charges the US claims were false.

But when it comes to imprisoning journalists the US doesn’t like, on charges indisputably false, Biden continued that despicable conduct of his 2 predecessors for 12 years.

That journalist, Julian Assange, committed the most grievous offence possible to the American political establishment, revealing US crimes in its perpetual warfare worldwide. In 2010 Assange did what journalists have been doing since Guttenberg invented the printing press….outing the crimes and misdemeanors of corrupt, waring leaders with purloined government secrets.

The fact Aussie Assange wasn’t an American made no dent on the lust to imprison by first Obama, then Trump, finally Biden. Off with his head, or at least life in prison.

It took 12 years, imprisoned first under asylum in Equator’s London embassy, then London’s Belmarsh Prison, to get Assange released upon pleading guilty to a single espionage charge. No US fanfare or PR push ahead of the US election for Assange’s release. Biden and his war cabinet tossed in the imprisonment towel after discrediting themselves as a friend of free journalism in their 14 year campaign to punish Assange for his good journalistic deeds back in 2010.

And Gershkovich? He and his journalistic colleagues at the NY Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and others, no doubt learned well the hard US lesson. It’s not wise to mess with their Uncle Sam when it comes to revealing unauthorized US secrets. The US celebration would not be for their release, just their imprisonment.