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Absolutely ridiculous. What's the charge here? It's not illegal for third parties to disclose factual information about the government. If it was, the staff at

Absolutely ridiculous. What's the charge here? It's not illegal for third parties to disclose factual information about the government. If it was, the staff at almost every newspaper would be thrown in jail on a daily basis. There is no concept of a journalist license. Wikileaks for better or worse is as legally engaged in journalism as anyone else. Any attempt to deny this by comparing them to large established news organizations is just an appeal to authority. I get that a lot of people don't like them now because of their garbage politics, but are we seriously prepared to throw away protection of journalists for this? Who's next, Glenn Greenwald?

Maxious 9y ago
> The Justice Department has all but concluded it will not bring charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing classified documents because government lawyers said they could not do so without also prosecuting U.S. news organizations and journalists, according to U.S. officials. [2013] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/julian-assange-unlikely-to-face-us-charges-over-publishing-classified-documents/2013/11/25/dd27decc-55f1-11e3-8304-caf30787c0a9_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/julia...
lern_too_spel 9y ago
The likely charge is in the article. > He said WikiLeaks "directed Chelsea Manning to intercept specific secret information, and it overwhelmingly focuses on the United States."