Prosecuting Wikileaks News Today

To publish them and to report on them because it would be a huge threat to press freedom if you start criminalizing the publication of information. >> going back farther in history, can you compare and contrast it with those who remember the pentagon papers? papers published by "the new york times," but is it on the same -- is it like that, only 2017 version? >> i couldnt agree more with that example. and, in fact, if you remember back in the nixon years, the nixon administration said all of the...

Worried tonight? should he be in prison? that was the key question as the fbi director gave us this brand-new phrase. >> wikileaks involves no such -- intelligence porn, push it out in order to damage. >> also can president trump really close the deal on a gop health care bill? and do some democrats secretly want, yes, secretly want house republicans to hold a vote on repealing obamacare? were live on capitol hill. and a backlash to a backlash. it all began with jimmy kimmels emotional monolog...

It sounded like there were. >> sounded like hes in an embassy in another country. it was so nonresponsive that as a lawyer -- youre a lawyer -- the first thing i thought of that guy has a sealed indictment hanging over him. >> totally agree. greta, let me say this one thing. back in 2010, 2011, all the major media outlets, washington times, prosecuting wikileaks would be a major -- the tweet was saying the media was the men i. this would be a much graver threat to criminalize the top secret docu...

That the one who committed the crime is the leaker. so, then i thought, is assange, is he a journalist? in which case his receipt of information is not the problem, hes not the actual one who went in and got the materials. so, tell me your thoughts on this. >> so, the obama administration looked at this question very deeply back in 2010, 2011 when wikileaks was releasing this information about the state department and military cables. and what they concluded was that there is no way to prosecute...

National security, do people really need to know? is there some line out there? >> so, i think there is an ethical line. and ive criticized wikileaks for publishing, for example, information from john podestas e-mail inbox that had no public interest or from the dnc. but thats not what theyre talking about. thats not illegal to publish -- to make a bad editorial judgment. what theyre talking about is publishing top secret information from the cia, from the pentagon, and thats when you get into t...

Instead just becomes about intelligence porn frankly, just pushing out information about sources and methods without regard to interest, without regard to the first amendment values that normally underlie press reporting and simply becomes a conduit for the russian intelligence services or some other adversary of the united states. surely theres conduct thats so far to the side of that line that we can all agree there is nothing that even smells journalist about some of this conduct. a huge port...

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