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Hydra

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1. I'm guessing this is the side benefit of charging leakers with espionage

Reply to WillyT (Original post)

Wed Aug 28, 2013, 03:58 PM

Aug 2013

Any journalist who refuses to rat on his source becomes part of it...and maybe it won't even be required to rat on the person? Glenn Greenwald jailed as a spy for simply talking to Snowden? That would have been highly convenient for the powers that be.

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I'm guessing this is the side benefit of charging leakers with espionage Hydra Aug 2013 #1

EXACTLY !!! WillyT Aug 2013 #2

I just noticed something … 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2013 #3

was it posted by the same person? G_j Aug 2013 #4

In this case ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2013 #6

Are you attempting to argue that confidentiality of sources has no precedent? Gravitycollapse Aug 2013 #5

Well ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2013 #8

They got "Brass"....in case we didn't notice... Sadly...n/t KoKo Aug 2013 #7