Posted on 10/29/2014 3:39:43 PM PDT by PROCON
I have no idea whether he’s guilty or not. I’m simply noting that his occupation does not, or should not, constitute a defense against the charges.
However, for some unknown reason a lot of Americans seem to think reporters are, or should be, allowed to break the law in order to get a story. I don’t buy it.
...or a hit he'd take back.
Believe Ruby Ridge was under Bush’s watch.
H0lder was part of the RoE setting crew IIRC.
The problem is that your examples are all of things that actually happened. You are therefore agreeing that Rosen did indeed aid, abet and conspire to break the law in order to get a story.
There is this myth out there that reporters are just sitting around the office and Deep Throat or some other leaker drops by and hands them a thumb drive with the information on it.
In actual fact, of course, reporters cultivate potential leakers and often work with them to decide what information to leak.
Whether Rosen is or is not guilty of doing so is more or less irrelevant to my argument, which is that 1A does not give reporters or other “members of the press” special rights to break the law without consequence that are denied to other Americans.
Do you disagree? Should you or I go to jail for the same act that a NY Times reporter gets a Pulitzer Prize for?
You must recognize this is a really silly argument. There are lots and lots of people, many of them in our government, who have broken laws and are not serving time. FTM, there is a somewhat smaller number who did not break any laws and are in jail anyway.
“My one regret is to have not to have tried to have destroyed America quicker. No doubt.”
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