Thread by @SMaurizi

1 .@bbhorne dear Lorax, I just want to clarify that my argument goes beyond #WikiLeaks: I think ALL media orgs and ALL sorts of journalists should have the right to communicate internally and with sources PRIVATELY: unless we protect our comms, no one will talk to us anymore

2. .@bbhorne if tomorrow someone publishes #DDoSecrets' internal comms, I will defend your right to communicate privately internally and with sources. I also defend the right to communicate privately for lawyers and clerics

3. .@bbhorne of course,if journalists/lawyers/clerics are involved in serious crimes or serious ethical violations, I agree that prosecutors and journalists have the right to violate the privacy of their comms. As for diplomats, things are different

4. .@bbhorne back in 2015,#WikiLeaks published the #CarterCables, which had been declassified by the US goverment. Among those declassified docs, there was this cable which is very important: search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1…

5. if you read that cable, you will see that a prominent Italian journalist (Montanelli) told the US diplomats that a #Pinochet-style regime would have been better than an Italian government with the Italian Communist Party.

6. I agree to have this cable published in full, thought it contains a journalist' conversation with US diplomats. States and diplomacies have the duty to be transparent and accountable. A journo talking to diplomats knows that his conversation might be exposed

7. Also: a journalist hoping to have a #Pinochet-style regime (in a country like Italy in the middle of the so-called "Strategy of Tension") MUST be exposed, so I would NOT protect such conversations, no matter a journalist is involved, because the public interest prevails