Tucker Carlson Visits Julian Assange

originally posted by: bastion
a reply to: JAY1980

It's a bit of a grey area - he certainly shouldn't have been held in inhumane conditions or have faced the multiple assasination attempts by the CIA but releasing the docs with unredacted names of civillians or intel assets is illegal and got a lot of people killed plus overstepped the journalism barrier when he gave tips on how to crack encryption and passwords to leak the info.

If the names had been redacted and Assange hadn't given advice to enable/encourage the hack it would have been protected journalism under public interest immunity/Reynold's defence.

The none 'insurance files' were redacted as carefully as possible and the war crimes unveiled would satisfy both criteria for Reynold's and could have formed a new legal precedent for electronic leaks in UK law but the release of unredacted insurance cables made it fail the ethical journalism test.

The mainstream media fails the ethical journalist test 6 times before breakfast.