> And in this case, that already happened: Manning served 7 years in jail for leaking the very information that Assange is being extradited over. With the leaker found and prosecuted, convicted, and sentence served, the U.S. Department of Justice should congratulate itself on a job well-done and move on to other things. It's absurd that they continue to pursue the publisher of the information almost a decade later.

That's not really how the justice system works, or should work. If two people commit a crime together, one of them is caught right away and punished for the crime, and the second is caught ten years later, would you expect the second person to go free because the first person was already caught? Of course not.

I don't think Assange should be extradited by the way, but this is a very bad argument, in addition to some of the criticism of various sibling comments.