Not only silent. A lot of them openly applauded their arrest. Snowden is easy. He's a former insider who didn't go through "the proper whistleblower channels." But even for Assange they'll say "he's not a journalist". By othering him in that way, they can remove all empathy and claim "That wouldn't happen to ME. I don't leak state secrets. I follow ethical journalistic standards."
Not only silent. A lot of them openly applauded their arrest. Snowden is easy. He's a former insider who didn't go through "the proper whistleblower channels." But even for Assange they'll say "he's not a journalist". By othering him in that way, they can remove all empathy and claim "That wouldn't happen to ME. I don't leak state secrets. I follow ethical journalistic standards."