Re:Julian Assange charged in superseding indictment
by vwarner1411 on Thursday June 25, 2020 @11:34AM
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Freedom of the Press doesn't give you carte blanche to disclose state secrets without repercussions. Just because the information is hard hitting doesn't give you a pass on the crimes you committed to get it.
Re:Julian Assange charged in superseding indictment
by balls187 on Thursday June 25, 2020 @12:09PM
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Freedom of the Press has limitations.
Example, as a journalist you cannot just walk into a US Army base and start reporting.
Re:Julian Assange charged in superseding indictment
by jessaustin on Thursday June 25, 2020 @02:27PM
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Gee, that sounds problematic. We give them $750B/yr, they kill innocent people around the world, and they don't submit to public oversight? I wish we lived in a free society...
Re:Julian Assange charged in superseding indictment
by balls187 on Friday June 26, 2020 @04:37PM
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The Senate Committee on Armed Services is the public government "group" charged with oversight of the US Military.
I don't know if that meets your definition of public oversight.
Re:Julian Assange charged in superseding indictment
by jessaustin on Friday June 26, 2020 @09:40PM
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Congress is infamously bad at overseeing anything. For that reason, from time to time journalists have helped the public to make direct policy recommendations. Of course the bureaucratic state prefers not to accommodate that form of oversight.
Re:Julian Assange charged in superseding indictment
by hilbertseries on Thursday June 25, 2020 @11:31AM
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To be fair, true journalists don’t host shows on RT.
If you don't believe that Assange has done truthful hard-hitting journalism, or you believe that he isn't a journalist at all, then you can maintain the belief that we don't put journalists in prison while sitting idle as he rots in prison, because he is not a True Journalist. "We wouldn't do that to True Journalists. Assange is different."