Without Julian Assange and the men and women of WikiLeaks, where would we be at this point in our nation’s history? Debbie Wasserman Schultz would still be running the DNC, Donna Brazile would still be offering “objective” analysis on CNN, and John Podesta’s UFO fascination might dominate the inner world of Clinton’s campaign. Most importantly, we would never have known Hillary Clinton admitted Saudi Arabia and Qatar provide clandestine support to ISIS, while accepting millions in donations from these countries to the Clinton Foundation. Clinton’s duplicity pertaining to foreign policy is highlighted in this WikiLeaks email, where she states “While this military/para-military operation is moving, we need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region.”

Does America benefit from being aware of this information?

Of course, the United States benefits, and voters have been allowed to pierce through the propaganda of New York Times journalists (giving articles to the Clinton campaign to edit before publication) and a media machine beholden to Hillary Clinton. Furthermore, it’s no secret Julian Assange is in arbitrary detention. According to The Guardian, “A United Nations panel has decided that Julian Assange’s three-and-a-half years in the Ecuadorian embassy amount to “arbitrary detention”, leading his lawyers to call for the Swedish extradition request to be dropped immediately.” Essentially, Julian Assange is being unlawfully detained, primarily because he’s a publisher that removes the curtain from government secrets and political propaganda.

His alleged crimes have no basis in any legal precedent, especially since WikiLeaks doesn’t hack or steal any documents. It publishes newsworthy material and as Glenn Greenwald states in On WikiLeaks, Journalism, and Privacy: Reporting on the Podesta Archive Is an Easy Call, “Journalists constantly publish material that is stolen or illegally obtained.” If any charges were to be leveled against Assange or WikiLeaks, everyone from The New York Times and Washington Post to The Guardian and publications around the planet would eventually face similar consequences; they’ve