The fact that Mueller is NOT a whitehat shows how brilliant the plan is.
500 interviews and 1500 subpeonas should be sufficient to make anyone guilty of anything. Anons know why Mueller couldn't lie, though.
>JA isn't any journo
From the indictment, these are some things any journalist does. OPs point is valid:
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It was part of the conspiracy that Assange and Manning used the "Jabber" online chat service to collaborate on the acquisition and dissemination of the classified records, and to enter into the agreement to crack the password stored on the United States Department of Defense computers connected to the Secret Internet Protocol Network.
It was part of the conspiracy that Assange and Manning took measures to conceal Manning as the source of the disclosure of classified records to WikiLeaks, including removing usernames from the disclosed information and deleting chat logs between Assange and Manning.
It was part of the conspiracy that Assange encouraged Manning to provide information and records from departments and agencies of the United States.
It was part of the conspiracy that Assange and Manning used a special folder on a cloud drop box of WikiLeaks to transmit classified records containing information related to the national defense of the United States.
Then they should only have things in the indictment that ONLY JA did, not things that ALL journalists do. This is what OP said:
>there will be legal precedent to extradite any journalist from anywhere for saying stuff we don't like
That point is valid.