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>Did the reporters who broke the pentagon papers see court? Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
by boomboomsubban 5y ago
>Did the reporters who broke the pentagon papers see court?
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_S...
And the ruling was printing classified documents was protected, though the government is trying to reverse this ruling with the Assange case.
- vageli 5y agoAs I understand it, the government is not trying to reverse this ruling with the Assange case. The government posits that Assange helped in the acquisition of the documents, which is separate from their dissemination, IIRC.
- boomboomsubban 5y agoAssange faces 18 charges, one of them has anything to do with his allegedly helping acquire documents. The others are violations of the Espionage Act for receiving and publishing documents. So until they drop all other charges, any "acquisition" he may have done is secondary to their attempt to outlaw publishing.