You don’t have to like Assange or endorse what he and WikiLeaks have done over the years to recognize that this indictment sets an ominous precedent and threatens basic First Amendment values…. ..…
You don’t have to like Assange or endorse what he and WikiLeaks have done over the years to recognize that this indictment sets an ominous precedent and threatens basic First Amendment values…. ..…
You don’t have to like Assange or endorse what he and WikiLeaks have done over the years to recognize that this indictment sets an ominous precedent and threatens basic First Amendment values…. ..…
The implication for Assange extradition case of Koeltl judgement is his robust and unequivocal statement of the truth that WikiLeaks is organization and its right to publish documents, specifically including stolen documents, is protected by First Amendment when those documents..…
The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, Reporters Committee for Freedom of Press, and American Civil Liberties Union had submitted written arguments supporting WikiLeaks request that the lawsuit be tossed.. ..…
District Judge John Koeltl New York said the actions by Trump team, including specific individuals named in the lawsuit, were protected by First Amendment.. WikiLeaks, was determined to be protected by First Amendment because the organization did not steal the..…
What then followed was application of First Amendment and press freedoms at play. DNC effort had smell of in pursuing WikiLeaks, it had ignored in history. ..…
Koeltl also said holding WikiLeaks and Trump campaign for dissemination of hacked emails would infringe on First Amendment of U.S. ..…
Nevertheless, the paper concludes, Trump administration has chosen to go well beyond the question of hacking to challenge the boundaries of First Amendment... As for unethical conduct, nothing WikiLeaks did surpasses for lack of ethics Post's of the contents of telephone call..…
The prosecution of WikiLeaks Julian Assange under Espionage Act represents dangerous turn President Donald Trump's on First Amendment. ..…
Free press defenders condemned this aggressive prosecution of Assange by Trump as the significant and terrifying threat to First Amendment in the 21st century.. WikiLeaks by publishing information about the US government, revealing its war crimes, corruption and human rights..…
With the indictment of Julian Assange, the government is advancing legal argument that places such important work in jeopardy and undermines the very purpose of First Amendment... Assange, through WikiLeaks, ing the killing of civilians including Reuters crew, provided by former..…
Those two publications had been all too happy to publish Wikileaks documents, but both have subsequently derisively mocked Assange’s claim to be a publisher and journalist entitled to First Amendment protection from US prosecution for Wikileaks’ releasing of classified..…
Put, these unprecedented charges against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks are the significant and terrifying threat to First Amendment in the century, ment by Freedom of the Press Foundation Executive Director Trevor Timm.. ..…
In a tweet WikiLeaks called the indictment “madness.” . This is madness. It is the end of national security journalism and the first amendment. https://t.co/wlhsmsenFw . — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) May 23, 2019 . . ..…
Wikileaks Julian Assange, thus making the case against him incredibly serious. WASHINGTON, novel case that raises First Amendment issues.. Assange's of government secrets were focused on handful of files that contained the names of people. ..…
It is the end of national security journalism and the first amendment,” the group tweeted. . Wikileaks later denounced the charges as “an unprecedented attack on the global free press” and an “extraterritorial application of US law,” saying in a statement that the..…
WikiLeaks on Twitter called the prosecution the end of journalism and First Amendment... ..…
WikiLeaks called the news “madness” in a tweet. “It is the end of national security journalism and the First Amendment,” said its Twitter account. . “The Department of Justice just declared war — not on WikiLeaks, but on journalism itself,” tweeted Snowden. ..…
“Put simply,” came his statement, “these unprecedented charges against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks are the most significant and terrifying threat to the First Amendment in the 21st century.” . ..…
The argument isn’t that Assange isn’t a journalist, or that Wikileaks is not a journalistic publication; for purposes of first amendment jurisprudence, there is a strong argument that he and Wikileaks enjoy the same protections-or level of culpability-as the New York..…
This would suggest the government is trying to prove Assange and Wikileaks shifted from mere “publisher” with First Amendment rights to “hacker” or “thief.” . ..…
The Trump regime with its grave concern for the human rights of people in Venezuela has now decided to step up its war against democracy by attacking the freedom of the press which is protected by the first amendment of the U.S. constitution. . ... Assange for Wikileaks’..…
Specifically, this relates to WikiLeaks of the video, documents concerning Afghanistan and Iraq and US Diplomatic Cables.. James Goodale, First Amendment lawyer and former general counsel of New York Times, said this about the US government's efforts to charge journalist. ..…
news outlets and media users noticed the two references to ' Assange and surmised that the Government had instituted criminal charges against Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. the Government recognizes that First Amendment right-to-access analysis typically depends on..…
Justice Department filed 17 charges against WikiLeaks Julian Assange on Thursday, deploying Espionage Act as cudgel against First Amendment protections and press freedom. ... I am concerned about the precedent this may set and potential dangers to the work of journalists and..…
Stone's argument that it's all just politics is close in kind to First Amendment protection defenses that Trump campaign has enjoys even if, it had contacts with Russia and WikiLeaks. ..…
vowing to destroy WikiLeaks for engaging in publishing activities that are protected under First Amendment, American people are slowly coming to see their own war that has been waged in their name.. ..…
While the exact criminal charges levied against Assange remain secret, the primary issue is whether WikiLeaks is portrayed as organization deserving of First Amendment protections or rather as government agent.. ..…
They seek to charge Assange and WikiLeaks for publishing classified information, although it goes against the guarantee of First Amendment and poses severe threat to press freedom.. ..…
Under the Obama administration, then-Attorney General Eric Holder drew a distinction between WikiLeaks and news organizations, saying WikiLeaks didn’t deserve the same First Amendment protections. ..…
similar issue arises for Trump in asserting First Amendment relation to its relationship to WikiLeaks in the publication and dissemination of stolen emails. ..…
In Risk, we hear Assange say on the phone, regarding the legality of WikiLeaks’ actions in the US: “We say we’re protected by the First Amendment. ..…
The reactionary and anti-democratic content of Democratic Party's to Trump is underscored by the lawsuit filed April by Democratic National Committee charging Russia, Trump campaign officials and Julian Assange and WikiLeaks of conspiracy to undermine the campaign of Hillary Clinton and elect Trump..…
Pompeo, as CIA Director, delivered one of the creepiest and most anti-press-freedom speeches heard in years, vowing that “we have to recognize that we can no longer allow Assange and his colleagues the latitude to use free speech values against us,” adding that WikiLeaks has “pretended that..…
The Senate Intelligence Committee recently passed its Intelligence Authorization Act for 2018 that contains a chilling attack on the First Amendment. Section 623 of the act expresses the “sense of Congress” that WikiLeaks resembles a “non-state hostile intelligence service..…