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W.r.t. why the Guardian isn't also being charged: While the act of leaking classified information is a crime, publishing classified information leaked to you by
by _delirium 13y ago
W.r.t. why the Guardian isn't also being charged: While the act of leaking classified information is a crime, publishing classified information leaked to you by someone else isn't a crime. Here's a law-review article discussing that: https://www.law.upenn.edu/institutes/cerl/conferences/ethicsofsecrecy/papers/reading/Stone.pdf https://www.law.upenn.edu/institutes/cerl/conferences/ethics...
- foobarqux 13y agoExcept the government has recently taken the view that journalists are co-conspirators and therefore criminals.