>Had Assange not provided the hacking tools, and had he not attempted to crack the passwords, this indictment would never have happened.
He has not been under trial yet, so how do you know with such certainty he actually did that?
>Press freedom and protecting your sources is not the issue here;
A lot of very prominent people who deal with politics, activism and journalism disagree with this assessment. On top of that list would be: Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden and Noam Chomsky. Their reasoning seems pretty solid. And unlike some media people, they didn't suddenly flip-flop in their positions on such issues.