Of course, I mean, I think that the
, the correct uh course of action from the US
government should have been to drop the case entirely.
Um We will be seeking a pardon obviously. Uh
but uh the fact that there is a guilty plea
under the espionage act in relation to um obtaining and
disclosing national defense information is obviously uh a very uh
serious um concern from, for journalists and national security
journalists in general. When we met, he was
under house arrest. It will be the first time
that I, that I get to see him as
a fully free man. And I was just,
when I was speaking to him, I said,
well, you know, we can walk, go
for a walk and there will be no, no
restrictions, no curfew. No, you know,
all this is, it's so alien um to the
way we've, we've uh it's been until now for
the past 14 years.