The US case against Assange is purely vindictive and only serves the interest of perpetuating the corrupt Deep State (regardless of which faction/gang is currently in power). The very obvious difference between, e.g. Hillary's criminal/treasonous mishandling of classified information and Assange's are: (1) Assange is not a US citizen and he operated outside of US jurisdiction (2) Assange is a journalist and did not violate any contractual/patriotic obligation in exposing American hypocrisy and war crimes - indeed he was acting in the public interest, not against it (3) Assange did not incur any obligation in the manner in which he came by the information (it was, after all, leaked to him) nor did he break any law in obtaining or disclosing it.