I think the administration badly, badly mishandled Snowden and Assange, and allowed Russia to coopt them by isolating and threatening them. If they had treated them as whistleblowers and journalists (even if they had nefarious motivations), they could have kept them in "the west" instead of driving them into the arms of Russia. I don't believe that Assange was a Russian agent at the beginning but he was surely one by the time of the 2016 election.
There's a reason we have laws around a free speech and a free press-- they make the country stronger, even if they make it harder to govern.
There's a reason we have laws around a free speech and a free press-- they make the country stronger, even if they make it harder to govern.