Thanks Gym! ------- Original Message ------- On Friday, September 25th, 2020 at 11:26 PM, jim bell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Friday, September 25, 2020, 10:59:30 PM PDT, Zenaan Harkness > <[email protected]> wrote: > > What's The Difference Between 'Villain' Assange & 'Intrepid' Woodward? > Lee Camp via Counterpunch.org > https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/09/25/whats-the-difference-between-villain-assange-intrepid-woodward/ > https://www.zerohedge.com/political/whats-difference-between-villain-assange-intrepid-woodward > >> The completely fair super awesome trial of Julian Assange continues in the >> U.K. as I write this. It’s a beautiful blend of the works of Kafka, Stalin >> and Joseph Heller. > > Most people here will be way too old to remember this, but there was the > "Pentagon Papers" case in 1971, that pre-dated Watergate by a year or so. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers The New York Times received > some military documents that had been ILLEGALLY copied by Daniel Ellsberg. > > The Federal government wanted to enjoin (prohibit) the NYT from publishing > that material. Eventually, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Feds COULD NOT > prohibit this publication. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_States > > Also, I think nobody was ever prosecuted for this. They were so embarrassed... > > Jim Bell
