James Risen of the NY Times exposed 10x more salient and embarrassing abuses of power than Assange and Snowden combined. When he was prosecuted to reveal his sources he stayed in the US, attended every hearing, continued reporting and was eventually cleared.
Comparing these two cases is not as simple as that. Risen refused to name sources for his book and did so till the end.
The only reason it didn't go further, and he didn't go to jail, was because of an arbitrary decision further up the chain that was already publicly signaled ahead of the hearing [0]
Assagne is spending time in jail right now, for years he was in a self-imposed jail over fabricated accusations, with the US actively violating his rights in every way they could, down to violation the client-attorney privilege.
Nothing out of the US signals that he will get a fair trail, everything suggests he would most likely be made out as a an political example, as he has been and currently is.
Assange is not accused of exposing stuff, some other crimes were fabricated, get familiar with the fake rape accusations where US got involved outside their jurisdiction, then get familiar with the recent fake witnesses. In fact the leaks where the names of agents were not redacted was done by some other guy.
- A try to find asylum and fight to bring to light the truth
- B be a retard and trust in the justice system that fabricated the crimes and evidence
- C kill yourself
I understand you prefer Assange should ahve chose B, would you also chose the same if it were you?