Julian Assange's family concerned for his safety as extradition looms
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.To be fair, it is not the Biden administration that has "criminalized knowing about classified information." Obtaining and disseminating classified information is a federal crime, and it has been a federal crime for a very long time. However, there has been persistent conflict over the press's obtaining and disseminating such information, given the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of the press. The issue here, it seems to me, would be whether or not a private individual can obtain and disseminate classified information and then simply claim he is part of the press in an attempt to avoid prosecution. It will be interesting to see what the Federal courts decide once the case is brought before them here in America.
KeithThroop
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Dec 14, 2021
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Did he just release just any classified information that he got, or were they just about perceived wrongdoing?
Epstein could be the example to follow.
@eschatologyguy Good question. I'm not sure that it matters whether or not what he released was about "perceived wrongdoing," at least not insofar as the unlawful obtaining and disseminating of classified material is concerned. Again, it will be interesting to see what the Federal courts have to say about it.
@KeithThroop it would matter since in the latter he would be doing a service exposing crooks in the bureaucracy conveniently hiding wrongdoing behind secrecy laws.
@eschatologyguy I was speaking not of the ethics of the situation, but of the legal issues. However, ethically there could be an issue as well. After all, "perceived wrongdoing," as you put it before, is hardly the same thing as certain knowledge of wrongdoing. At any rate, it is the legal question that the Federal courts will need to sort out.
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