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by pphysch 1039 days ago
> Truthful statements are not libel.

But they might impact national security.

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In approximately the same sense that reporting about Abu Ghraib could be considered to impact American "national security", or sharing videos of abuses by Israeli soldiers in Gaza could be considered to impact Israeli "national security".
Well, the Nazis were using the same arguments when they were publicly hanging children and other people for what they said...