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How do you get Snowden, Manning and the Washington Navy Yard spree shooter in the same category? By treating leaks to the press and a sawed-off shotgun as the same thing: all âweapons.â Itâs a peculiar stance for a TV news magazine that prides itself on its tradition of investigative reporting to takeâthat getting information out to the public is a form of violence.
Itâs also odd for journalists to describe Manning, because she was convicted under the Espionage Act, as a âconvicted spy.â The law forbids giving âan unauthorized personâŚany classified information,â language that was not meant to give the United States an Official Secrets Act, but which has been treated as such by the Obama administration. Regardless of whether this is legal or constitutional, the Act doesnât change the meaning of the word âspyâ; presumably when 60 Minutes reporters get classified information from government officials, they donât say to their sources, âThanks for spying for us.â
In a CYA moment, Pelley acknowledges that âsome believe that Snowden and Manning were right to expose what they saw as government abuses like the NSAâs domestic surveillance program.â But a sentence later, heâs again referring to the whistleblowersâalong with the mass shooterâas âdangerous hands,â a line that provides the title for the segment.
60 Minutes Stands With Secret Keepers Against Those Who Expose Them
And it's so transparent.
Itâs also odd for journalists to describe Manning, because she was convicted under the Espionage Act, as a âconvicted spy.â The law forbids giving âan unauthorized personâŚany classified information,â language that was not meant to give the United States an Official Secrets Act, but which has been treated as such by the Obama administration. Regardless of whether this is legal or constitutional, the Act doesnât change the meaning of the word âspyâ; presumably when 60 Minutes reporters get classified information from government officials, they donât say to their sources, âThanks for spying for us.â
In a CYA moment, Pelley acknowledges that âsome believe that Snowden and Manning were right to expose what they saw as government abuses like the NSAâs domestic surveillance program.â But a sentence later, heâs again referring to the whistleblowersâalong with the mass shooterâas âdangerous hands,â a line that provides the title for the segment.
60 Minutes Stands With Secret Keepers Against Those Who Expose Them
And it's so transparent.