Thanks so much for joining me yeah thanks for having me so youre doing excellent journalism and one of the topics that i think youre one of the best on is julian assigns so i wanted to start off with talking about him obviously theres always developments in whats going on with him the continued persecution of joined us on recently they added extra indictments more indictments they added on a few weeks ago i mean there were already 17 indictments 17 or 18 by the Justice Department against him what the hell are they adding on to and whats the point of. Theyre just window dressing theyre trying to make their case look better but it really rests upon this Conspiracy Theory that theyve never been able to prove that julian assad and recruited Chelsea Manning to work for wiki leaks and she was inside the pentagon systems acting as some kind of spy and truly wasnt a military whistleblower and in effect the reason why we saw this superseding indictment where theyre now criminalizing not just ju