Freedom of speech & Western hypocrisy.

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Re: Freedom of speech & Western hypocrisy.

@mercenary2k

What a ridiculous comment and this coming from a “Director”.

Bradley Manning stole US Diplomatic communications and Julian Assange published them on the Internet.

Those Newspapers acted as medians in publishing distilled Cables just like YouTube is being used to show the Muhammed Film.

Get your analogies correct.

Its like some hacker hacking into ISI and stealing its secrets and publishing them on the Internet.

Umm the 5 newspapers did not just innocently report the leaked cables story, they partnered up with Wikileaks, they obtained those documents after being granted early access and they ALL simultaneously published the *whole *cables (the first 200 or so). So if you’re going to charge Wikileaks, charge the newspapers too for the Espionage Act criminalizes obtaining and communicating classified government info and it doesn’t matter what your source is, whether you obtained it from Manning or Wikileaks or whoever else. Unless you’re making your own little amendment and telling me the newspapers can’t be charged because they obtained it from Assange not Manning.

Forget the Wikileaks business, how was the Espionage Act not violated when The New York Times previously exposed the President’s warrantless surveillance program?