Who is promoting this idea that the Obama administration wasn't prosecuting Assange for some concern about journalist first amendment rights?
This is the same admin that jailed and spied on journalists, froze Wikileaks accounts, coordinated with allies to create fake rape charges, held open secret indictments, and generally did everything possible to keep him under house arrest for 6 years.
Pure retroactive fiction.
I'm not happy about his current situation. Hoping there is another secret plot afoot.