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If Julian is to be prosecuted, then there’s a equally good case for the editor and journalists in The Guardian or New York Times, Der Spiegel, El País, La República and all the other organizations involved in this coverage being prosecuted, too.

— Ewen MacAskill

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Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Ewen MacAskill (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.