[DontGiveTwoFlux]

The indictment charges that he conspired to crack passwords on government computers. It appears that the free press protections extend to only accepting documents, and not pursuing of them. This makes sense to me on its face. Newspapers reporters hacking into government networks goes beyond reporting, and should not be journalistically protected.

[hjk05]

Honestly I’d rather live in a world where those who expose government conspiracies and corruption are protected than one where they are held to the letter of a law.