Freedom of Speech is meaningless if you only protect the speech you like and agree with. No person should be jailed or penalized for speaking truth.

Journalists and publishers have legal protections for this very reason.

A nation has no authority over a non-citizen located outside it's own borders. The laws of a nation only apply within it's own borders or outside its borders for it's own citizens in some cases.

This particular case is cut and dry. The US government has overstepped.

And yes I picked a big interest story to make a point...