No! I don’t see it that way, if you pardon him it opens up a Pandora’s box, every liberal in a position of being in military intelligence could theoretically use Assange as a defence and get away with the traitorous crimes!
Is Snowden a traitor ?
In that sense imo, people like John Brennan and James Comey are even worse traitors. Hunter Biden. ....Hillary started a war in Libya , covert war in Syria, got CIA agents killed in China.....
A traitor with a capital “T”
It is thought he copied and leaked around 1.7million National Security Agency files, though the exact number is not known.
These consisted of 160,000 intercepted email and instant message conversations and 7,900 documents from more than 11,000 online accounts.
The vast cache included 900,000 Department of Defence files, 15,000 or more Australian intelligence files and 58,000 British intelligence files.
He has always claimed his actions were not a betrayal of his country but a public service to expose the massive surveillance capabilities and abuses of the American and British secret states