mo4ch:>'Huge threat to First Amendment': US seeks to intimidate reporters by indicting Assange – journalist | Mo4ch News

The prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is nothing but an intimidation campaign waged by the US to discourage journalists from revealing Washington's dirty secrets, journalist Cassandra Fairbanks told RT.The US is apparently seeking to lock Assange away for the rest of his life as an example for all other journalists around the world to see, Fairbanks said, commenting on the latest indictment against the whistleblower announced by a federal grand jury. Each of the 17 additional charges introduced under the Espionage Act carries a 10-year prison sentence, meaning that the Wikileaks founder could face up to 175 years in jail in total.Fairbanks believes Assange might actually face a much more gruesome fate."I am not even convinced that they will not give him the death penalty. There are other espionage act charges that carry the death penalty," she told RT, adding that the US is likely to "throw everything they can at him."Also on rt.com175 yrs in jail…