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Originally Posted by hockeydad
Give me a break. Its called freedom of the press.
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Just a suggestion, but you might want to check into how the SCOTUS views that assertion.
First, I'm no attorney.
Because Julian Assange owes no allegiance to the United States as a citizen, would suggest it unlikely that the United States would have any jurisdiction to charge him for treason, sedition, or subversion under Title 18 USC.
On the other hand, accomplices who are U.S. citizens could be charged, but based on the definititions and what might be winnable in court, my suggestion would be a charge of subversion.
I highly doubt that the errant PFC so implicated here would have had the understanding of the hierarchies and intricacies necessary to collect so much diplomatic information across the SIPR from the military's network, given only modest military training and considering his youth. Not only would he have had to have been a genius intelligence analyst, he'd have had to have been an accomplished hacker. He had help - or he's been set up to take the fall for the person or group who really did the work. He more likely that not provided only the window, and someone else (Wiki?) did the actual mining.
While Mr. Assange himself may find himself immune from U.S. law, he's made enemies across the world now. He is - truly - the man without a country. Probably not the best predicament to be in....
Can an individual commit an act of war?
