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If pursuing and publishing ill-begotten classified government info is wrong, what to do about the Washington Post? In 2017, the paper posted 2 bombshell articles based on leaks from anti-Trump officials who were breaking the law: These officials... amgreatness.com/2019/04/15/wik…
unlawfully disclosed to Post reporters details about intercepted calls btw Mike Flynn and the Russian ambassador, and the existence of a FISA order on Carter Page. As Trey Gowdy confirmed in Comey’s March 2017 hearing, those are felonies punishable...
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by up to 10 years in jail. Now, journos like David Ignatius (who first seeded the Flynn call story) argue that Julian Assange isn’t a journo bc he allegedly tried to “steal” classified material. But “steal” is an ambiguous term. What if a reporter tried to buy off an FBI agent...
with free tickets to an NBA game or a free meal, as the DOJ IG discovered, leading to many “unauthorized” leaks of info to the media? What if the journo traded sex for illegally-sourced scoops? Or if the journo was being paid by Glenn Simpson to publish government secrets? Or...
If the news outlet posted the classified info sourced from people breaking the law so they could win a Pulitzer, like the WashPo did last year for its Russian collusion reporting? If anyone has an issue with Assange and WikiLeaks, you should have a big problem with WashPo, too.
