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Rath on 02 December 2010
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Kasz216 said:
Rath said:

Apparently the USA is going to try and prosecute for espionage. Seriously?

I didn't realise that the First Amendment was conditional on how pissed off the government was.


The First Ammenedment stops at the moment your speech is likely to cause peoples deaths.  You could argue that the clear and present danger rule is broken by giving out all sorts of information like this.

Basically all they would have to do is find a lawless act committed due to these actions due to his intent.  Which, probably wouldn't be that hard.

In general what he did I think itself is illegal.  He published state secrets.  Not sure if it's illegal for a non us  citizen though.

In general though, posting classfied info = getting in trouble in any country you are a part of.

I think leaking the information is illegal, publishing it is not. Assange has no responsibility to the US government, unlike the person who gave him this information. I don't believe it would be illegal even for a US citizen to do what he did.

Also there is no wayany of the information released so far fails the clear and present danger test.