There's a fine line between some acts, like publishing documents passed to you, and actively helping a source commit acts that are crimical for the source in or

There's a fine line between some acts, like publishing documents passed to you, and actively helping a source commit acts that are crimical for the source in order to obtain further documents to publish. The former is generally protected activity. The latter is more like criminal conspiracy. Inconvenientl, being a journalist or acting in the interests of journalism does not bless a person's conduct with immunity.