Jack Goldsmith argues that it would be a mistake for the United States to try and prosecute Wikileaks’ Julian Assange. The government should fully investigate how this major breach of national security occurred. But prosecuting Assange would be a mistake. The first problem with going after Assange is that the effort is likely to fail. […]
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According to State Department legal advisor and former Yale Law School dean Harold Koh, the Wikileaks document dumps “place at risk the lives of countless innocent individuals – from journalists to human rights activists and bloggers to soldiers to individuals providing information.” The harm to U.S. diplomatic and military interests is said to be quite […]