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		brown9-2 on June 7, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Blogger, With Focus on Surveillance, Is at Center ... They get away with prosecuting leakers because leaking classified information (while often noble) is a crime. The issue is prosecution of journalists for publishing said info, which is not a crime.

ixnu on June 7, 2013 [–]

There is considerable debate about this:

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