“Press freedom organizations spent years warning about the risks of the Biden administration continuing Trump’s Espionage Act prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for obtaining and publishing government secrets from a source. “
“The case — which ended up as the first successful prosecution of a publisher (as opposed to source) under the Espionage Act — set a precedent allowing criminalization of routine journalism at presidents’ whims.”
“why (do) we have a(n)…“espionage” law on the books …so vaguely drafted…it could conceivably give an experienced journalist pause when news falls in his lap.Professors+editors can grapple w/the ethics of publishing secrets the government itself discloses…the law should have no role in the decision.”
Comments