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Journalists Are All Julian Assange<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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As Ecuador threatens to expel Julian Assange, CN Ed. Joe Lauria will speak in a 50-hr.\u00a0online vigil<\/a> for Assange on Sat., 8pm EDT. In 2010, Bob Parry, late CN founder & editor, wrote this incisive essay on Assange\u2019s vital work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Whatever the unusual aspects of the case, the Obama administration\u2019s reported plan to indict WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for conspiring with Army Pvt. Bradley Manning to obtain U.S. secrets \u00a0strikes at the heart of investigative journalism on national security scandals.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because the process for reporters obtaining classified information about crimes of state most often involves a journalist persuading some government official to break the law either by turning over classified documents or at least by talking about the secret information. There is almost always some level of \u201cconspiracy\u201d between reporter and source.<\/p>\n

Contrary to what some outsiders might believe, it\u2019s actually quite uncommon for sensitive material to simply arrive \u201cover the transom\u201d unsolicited. Indeed, during three decades of reporting on these kinds of stories, I can only recall a few secret documents arriving that way to me.<\/p>\n

In most cases, I played some role \u2013 either large or small \u2013 in locating the classified information or convincing some government official to divulge some secrets. More often than not, I was the instigator of these \u201cconspiracies.\u201d<\/p>\n

My \u201cco-conspirators\u201d typically were well-meaning government officials who were aware of some wrongdoing committed under the cloak of national security, but they were never eager to put their careers at risk by talking about these offenses. I usually had to persuade them, whether by appealing to their consciences or by constructing some reasonable justification for them to help.<\/p>\n

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Assange: Doing what journalists do.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Journalists Are All Julian Assange As Ecuador threatens to expel Julian Assange, CN Ed. Joe Lauria will speak in a 50-hr.\u00a0online vigil for Assange on Sat., 8pm EDT. In 2010, Bob Parry, late CN founder & editor, wrote this incisive essay on Assange\u2019s vital work.\u00a0 Whatever the unusual aspects of the case, the Obama administration\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3079,6963,8739,379,462,2001,7203,2643,880],"class_list":["post-36442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-bradley-manning","tag-consortium-news","tag-ecuador","tag-government","tag-journalism","tag-julian-assange","tag-robert-parry","tag-secrets","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36443,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36442\/revisions\/36443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}