The almost decade long defamation campaign to silence Assange has worked to the point where I might as well be defending a pedophile, yet all the DOJ could come up with was cracking a hash.
The CIA tried that too: https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/312654-wikileaks-th...
I find it funny when people minimize actions to the barest minimum.
Like saying a gun murderer got jail for "only pulling a lever, which law abiding people do tens of times a day".
If a US president starts a thermonuclear war and causes nuclear winter: "All he did was enter numbers and press a few red buttons, stop giving him a hard time".