> hanging out with some dodgy characters (including the one mentioned in the article) > (from the article) The conspirators, posing as Guccifer 2.0, discussed

> hanging out with some dodgy characters (including the one mentioned in the article) > (from the article) The conspirators, posing as Guccifer 2.0, discussed the release of the stolen documents and the timing of those releases with Organization 1 A publisher talks with their source and get indicted as accomplice in a plot to destabilise the US. This very much a free press issue and is not the first time nor the last time it will happen. Watergate happened because Woodward and Bernstein was hanging out with the dodgy character Deep Throat. Daniel Ellsberg discussed the release of stolen documents and the timing of those releases with Organization X. Indictments there would had very real free press or free speech implications, and thankfully we remember history as not destroying the free press those times.