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deurbano

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7. As I said on another thread:

Reply to JoeyT (Reply #6)

Wed Aug 21, 2013, 11:10 PM

Aug 2013

Miranda was a courier for a journalist employed by the newspaper that paid the courier's expenses.

I know the whole concept of "journalist" is evolving (and some people are slow to catch up), but Greenwald's situation is old school (as a journalist working for a long established, widely read newspaper), so I can't understand how his status is even in question.

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"Holding classified information for a reporter is not the same as swallowing a bag of heroin for..." [View all] deurbano Aug 2013 OP

Exactly. +++ DirkGently Aug 2013 #1

A big kick for Ari Melber!! grasswire Aug 2013 #2

Toobin the hack does not want to be "unkind"? Sure... n/t Hydra Aug 2013 #3

it was STOLEN classified information. Damn, the stupid just keeps getting shoveled in here. KittyWampus Aug 2013 #4

Yes, comparing Miranda to a drug mule was not smart. deurbano Aug 2013 #5

I must have missed the part where it was proved that he possessed stolen information. totodeinhere Aug 2013 #8

so drop the shovel already frylock Aug 2013 #10

You are so right... ljm2002 Aug 2013 #11

Stolen from whom? JDPriestly Aug 2013 #12

"If simply possessing classified information were a crime, I’d be speaking to you from a room full Luminous Animal Aug 2013 #15

It's also worth noting many of the people defending it because he's not a journalist, JoeyT Aug 2013 #6

As I said on another thread: deurbano Aug 2013 #7

Thank goodness... ljm2002 Aug 2013 #9

If simply possessing classified information were a crime, I’d be speaking to you from a room full of Luminous Animal Aug 2013 #13

Drugs are strict liability. Classified material isn't Recursion Aug 2013 #14

Yes, but Look Deeper Please HumansAndResources Aug 2013 #16

That's an interesting point. deurbano Aug 2013 #17