{"id":45468,"date":"2019-04-18T12:51:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T17:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45468"},"modified":"2019-04-18T12:51:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T17:51:17","slug":"robert-parry-all-investigative-journalists-do-what-julian-assange-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45468","title":{"rendered":"ROBERT PARRY: All Investigative Journalists Do What Julian Assange Did"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2019\/04\/18\/all-journalists-do-what-julian-assange-did\/\">ROBERT PARRY: All Investigative Journalists Do What Julian Assange Did<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. has indicted Julian Assange for encouraging his source to give more information and for trying to protect his source\u2019s identity, what all journalist routinely do, said one of the greatest investigative journalists of our time. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Parry is writing here about the Obama administration\u2019s attempt to indict Assange for simply doing what all investigative journalists, including Parry, do all the time: namely encourage&nbsp;<\/em><em>their<\/em><em>&nbsp;sources to turn over secret information even if the sources&nbsp;<\/em><em>have<\/em><em>&nbsp;to break the law to do so. While the Obama DOJ eventually decided against indictment because it would cross the red line of criminalizing journalism, the Trump administration has crossed that very line on the very same evidence the Obama administration rejected. This is an especially prescient and relevant article from the late founder of&nbsp;<strong>Consortium News,<\/strong>&nbsp;written just eight months after the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/collateralmurder.wikileaks.org\/\">release<\/a>&nbsp;of the Collateral Murder video.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>W<\/strong>hatever the unusual aspects of the case, the Obama administration\u2019s reported plan to indict&nbsp;<em>WikiLeaks<\/em>&nbsp;founder Julian Assange for conspiring with Army Pvt. Bradley Manning to obtain U.S. secrets strikes at the heart of investigative journalism on national security scandals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROBERT PARRY: All Investigative Journalists Do What Julian Assange Did The U.S. has indicted Julian Assange for encouraging his source to give more information and for trying to protect his source\u2019s identity, what all journalist routinely do, said one of the greatest investigative journalists of our time. &nbsp; Parry is writing here about the Obama [&hellip;]<\/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":[6963,25646,7203,827],"class_list":["post-45468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-consortium-news","tag-investigative-journalism","tag-robert-parry","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45468","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=45468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45469,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45468\/revisions\/45469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}