Re: KathViner tweets about the fraudian's latest Assange hand wringing Archived Message
Posted by Ian M on May 28, 2019, 7:45 pm, in reply to "Re: KathViner tweets about the fraudian's latest Assange hand wringing"
I notice Rusbridger didn't mention the decision to happily hand over the graun's servers to the police. Wasn't aware of this though, so it wasn't a complete waste of my time reading his mealy-mouthed, hypocritical article: 'When Theresa May was home secretary in 2015, the Law Commission was asked to review the British laws around official secrecy. In 2017, it recommended reforms that could see journalists prosecuted for simply holding secret material, never mind publishing it. The Commission also sought to deny reporters the ability to advance a public interest defence and suggested jail sentences of up to 14 years. Oh, and it suggested that the “public interest” when it came to national security should be defined by the government of the day.' I
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