The Hill News

Often it is the case that the protagonists of precedential civil liberties issues are questionable characters. There are more Escobedos than Martin Luther Kings in the pantheon of personalities whose names symbolize important constitutional issues. Julian Assange is the most recent case in point. Assange leads a weird life-on-the-run, and is a hero to some while an outlaw to many. Like many notorious figures, he provokes the law and generates distracting side stories like the questionable rape claims in Sweden. But Assange’s leaks are causing commentators to revisit our government’s secrecy laws, and this is good.

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