Rep. Massie Urges

Rep. Thomas Massie Urges Biden to Drop Prosecution of Julian Assange, Brings His Brother to State of the Union

Gabriel Shipton, Assange's brother, says Assange's health is deteriorating after suffering a mini-stroke.

@RepThomasMassie: "Julian Assange is in prison right now for the "crime" of publishing actual facts that were inconvenient to our government.

We've got a 200-plus-year tradition of having freedom of speech and freedom of the press, and the Assange case is a very dangerous precedent on several levels.

One, because it has a chilling effect on the media, some people may receive documents that they know'd be in the public interest to publish, but they'll feel intimidated by this case.

And then I think it's also a bad precedent because the United States is going to another country and plucking a citizen not of the United States out of that country and bringing them here to prosecute under our jurisdiction."

@GabrielShipton: "We want to highlight a bipartisan letter sent to the Biden administration last year, which stated that this prosecution is unprecedented. It's a threat to a free press. It's a threat to the First Amendment rights of all Americans."

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Rep. Thomas