All in favor of detaining journalists or their significant others, raise your hands.

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283. My Gawd, the stupidity on this is mind boggling!

It is not stolen property.

First of all, it is leaked information from the US government's spying agency. The last time I checked, the UK was not involved in oversight of the NSA.

Second of all, it is leaked information just like the Pentagon Papers and numerous other instances of whistle-blowing and investigative journalism.

Finally, it is not the their property, it is ours! Can y'all not fucking get that. The government is beholden to us, the people of the United States. They are keeping programs secret in the name of 'The War on Terror' that are not protecting us but are instead attempting to control us.

This 'property' is mine. It is yours. It is all of ours. I bloody well want it disseminated to all corners of the damned globe in order to stop this little authoritarian surveillance state dead in its tracks. That is why Freedom of the Press is a foundational freedom of this democratic Republic we call the US of A. Without it, bullshit claims about this 'data' being 'their stolen property' is allowed to pass the smell test....which bluntly, it just doesn't!