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So what? A private citizen has no obligation to secrecy.
by jessaustin 5y ago
So what? A private citizen has no obligation to secrecy.
- gampleman 5y agoLet alone a citizen of a different country...
- deelowe 5y agoI'm guessing that's about to be tested in court. The overarching question is at what point does a private citizen/activist become culpable. Developing technologies and social networks (old school kind, not facebook) which are explicitly designed to enable the stealing/leaking of state secrets would seem to be skirting pretty close to the line of "I'm just a private citizen/journalist." This is doubly true if said leaks end up putting military personnel and government assets in harms way.
- jessaustin 5y agoThis is doubly true if said leaks end up putting military personnel and government assets in harms way. We don't need to consider that possibility. It has been over a decade since this information was released. If anyone about whom USA government cares had ever suffered any harm (even if they actually deserved it) as a result, the USA war media would have crowed about it until we had all memorized all details. Not even a rumor exists of anything like that, so we know it didn't happen.