Wikileaks was the receiver of stolen property, which is a crime.
And when the New York Times and Washington Post received the stolen Pentagon Papers, what happened?
The pentagon papers were not "stolen"
The
Pentagon Papers, officially titled
Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force, is a
United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in
Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. The papers were released by
Daniel Ellsberg, who had worked on the study; they were first brought to the attention of the public on the front page of
The New York Times in 1971
Daniel Ellsberg knew the leaders of the task force well. He had worked as an aide to McNaughton from 1964 to 1965, had worked on the study for several months in 1967, and Gelb and Halperin approved his access to the work at RAND in 1969