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You're right, the actual charges they were convicted of were espionage. Still, the point I'm making is that Assange's actions are nowhere near what the Rosenbergs did. Unless we see some superseding indictments of worse stuff.

Interesting historical perspective on how/why the death sentence was sent down, I didn't know that part about the judge.




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