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Julian AssangeMedia critic: Julian Assange May Already Have Won

Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange say his arrest on US charges of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion constitutes a dangerous crackdown on freedom of the press. But as Politico’s Jack Shafer notes, prosecutors “stayed well clear of the dangerous notion of prosecuting a publisher for publishing.” Yet the result is that Assange “might get exactly the fight he’s looking for, served up to him by the government he purports to loathe” and allowing him to argue that “it’s all a political setup.” Fact is, this indictment “is very weak tea” — so much so that he may convince a British court…