Flawed assessment? No, it's a dishonest one.

I'm talking about the establishment apologists from the Obama Administration talking about Assange and his arrest -

https://shadowproof.com/2019/04/24/former-obama-official-ben-rhodes-assange-justify-trump-doj-prosecution/

Fortunately the site's Editor responds appropriately -

https://medium.com/@kevin_33184/what-is-wrong-with-former-obama-administration-officials-case-for-prosecuting-julian-assange-1409acce93f7

Rhodes believes Assange is not a journalist because he has sought to “embarrass” the U.S. government. To publish journalism to “embarrass” the U.S. government is to stir chaos for the sake of garnering attention for one’s exploits. No responsible journalist would seek to “embarrass” the U.S. government when exposing abuse or corruption because that might disrupt business as usual, and the U.S. is the leader of the free world. The U.S. government must be able to maintain its influence or power or anti-democratic forces may take advantage of America’s moment of weakness.

But more importantly, the leak of the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs established - aside from revealing the deep nature of corruption and complicity to cheat and lie the establishment will go to to maintain American Hegemony - that the US Government through its military committed war crimes.