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Aung San Suu Kyi won't free two @Reuters reporters; she told the U.S. that they had revealed state secrets.

The secret was that her government massacred civilians.

washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac…
Here's the secret they exposed. It's among the best investigative journalism I've ever seen. reuters.com/investigates/s…
Myanmar is making these reporters pay an unconscionable price for revealing the truth. And as if this injustice weren't enough, the police have admitted, in court, that they were framed.
reuters.com/article/us-mya…
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To be fair, the argument that President Trump doesn't know what he's talking about is one his administration has made repeatedly (and successfully) in federal court.
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We're on the opposite side of one of those cases, so I suppose we're constrained to say that we disagree.
(It seems to me to be an unusual state of affairs when @usatoday is the one trying to persuade a court that the president should be presumed to know what he's talking about, and the Justice Department is saying he doesn't.)
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18 U.S.C. § 875(d) makes it a federal crime to send an interstate communication with the extent to extort a thing of value from someone by threatening to injure his "property or reputation."
Is a public statement a thing of value? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But the 8th Cir. has held that an apology can be a thing of value under the statute if the person demanding it wants it badly enough.
That was a case in which a guy created fake social media accounts portraying a woman who'd spurned him as a prostitute and exotic dancer. He said this was protected speech. The court said it was stalking. media.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/17/08/1…
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