🧵> Assange is not a very likable character, but he did nothing wrong in that case. As a foreign national living abroad, he had absolutely no obligation to preserve US secrets. If anything, he had an obligation to send them to the Australian government. Yet the US waged a ferocious war against him, intending to bury him alive in solitary for the rest of his life; and arranged for trumped-up charges of rape to get that. Which caused him to spend 14 years essentially in prison. 🧵>