What law did Assange break?

[Deadstick]

He didn't conspire to jack shit....He published material that he was given in good faith, just like the NYT did with the Pentagon Papers.

You don't want embarrassing shit to get out, quit being little criminal The Guardian newspaper published the same information, then the bastards threw Assange under a bus.

 

[MayorQuimby]

BS. That would be like cart blanch for anybody else wishing to conspire to release classified material, including method, contacts, personnel and covert acts on the World Wide Web to the benefit of our enemies, and compromising trusts with allies. He is Australian. Let him go back there, blocked NO FLY from re-entering the US again. Surely he has a home to go to.

But we should blame the guilty party for doing something bad; not punishing someone for revealing it.

You mentioned releasing classified material. I definitely can see how a government would not want that. However, do we not have the moral obligation to expose government wrongdoings? Let's say a government is engaged in something illegal or immoral, maybe something like gang-raping young children, and someone exposed that. Should that person go to jail for it?

 

[Deadstick]

But we should blame the guilty party for doing something bad; not punishing someone for revealing it.

You mentioned releasing classified material. I definitely can see how a government would not want that. However, do we not have the moral obligation to expose government wrongdoings? Let's say a government is engaged in something illegal or immoral, maybe something like gang-raping young children, and someone exposed that. Should that person go to jail for it?

Assange also released information about how the US Governemnt had been spying on it's own citizens how easy some people will walk into that dark night of tyranny.

 

[White 6]

But we should blame the guilty party for doing something bad; not punishing someone for revealing it.

You mentioned releasing classified material. I definitely can see how a government would not want that. However, do we not have the moral obligation to expose government wrongdoings? Let's say a government is engaged in something illegal or immoral, maybe something like gang-raping young children, and someone exposed that. Should that person go to jail for it?

Sure, but this was not about gang rapes. Released were names of clandestine operatives, still in foreign countries, data collected, that revealed how we collect and share data, as well as data entrusted to us by foreign allies, aiding in analysis of how they collect information, who collects it, and who from. I am familiar with our security protocols for handling classified data, very far up the line, SF86 still on file, all clearances lapsed at retirement, then reinstated, then lapsed again, yet still so clean, I squeak. I have no problem with keeping confidences, or supporting others be kept to the same standards.