Drones Over Iceland? Ctd

Michael Scherer takes the time to rebut Thiessen:

To be clear, Assange's crime, according to Thiessen, is intentionally
receiving and republishing classified information, something that is
done with some regularity in the United States by respectable and responsible
reporters working for top flight news organizations. To adopt
Thiessen's view, one would effectively have to reject the Supreme
Court's opinion in New York Times Co. v. United States, the so-called
Pentagon Papers case from 1971.

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