so it s an interesting time. he has been fairly solemnic in his decision about honoring the public s need to have some information about this investigation. at the same time, recognizing that the prosecutor needs to make a decision and potential defendants have due process rights and he doesn t want to get the cart ahead of the horse and let everything out. one of the ideas that we are not going to see all of it is they are still considering charges. why not release all of it? well, there could be reasons to keep grand jury information secret. and it is a secretive process. if you think about it, if your name was mentioned in the grand jury and you were not charged with a crime, you wouldn t want a report out there saying that you had been discussed. so it protects uncharged people. it also protects investigations to not have the investiformatio there and protects witnesses from intimidation or contact by the parties in a case to see if they could move their testimony one way or an
that he s a journalist, but he is being accused of conspiring with a source. and what does that mean? well, he spoke to his source and if that is a crime, then everyjournalist at least those that speak to sources are now exposed to being prosecuted and put in prison. you did the war logs and the war diaries dump and then, you then released all of these diplomatic cables which had different kinds of information secret, confidential information involving the us government s contacts with individuals on the ground in a whole host of countries. just to take one small example, but not small to the individual involved, an ethiopian journalist, reporter argaw ashine was forced to flee the country because he was named in a us cable and he believed it put his life in immediate danger. he had to flee, leave his homeland, and again, wouldn t have happened had you not taken your decision to leak.
well, he spoke to his source and if that is a crime, then everyjournalist at least those that speak to sources are now exposed to being prosecuted and put in prison. you did the war logs and the war diaries dump and then, you then released all of these diplomatic cables which had different kinds of information secret, confidential information involving the us government s contacts with individuals on the ground in a whole host of countries. just to take one small example, but not small to the individual involved, an ethiopian journalist, reporter argaw ashine was forced to flee the country because he was named in a us cable and he believed it put his life in immediate danger. he had to flee, leave his homeland, and again, wouldn t have happened had you not taken your decision to leak. again, you know, you re talking about situations that i m not familiar with, that weren t brought before a court martial. but that s the point you weren t familiar with them because there s
there s no question that he s a journalist, but he is being accused of conspiring with a source. and what does that mean? well, he spoke to his source and if that is a crime, then everyjournalist at least those that speak to sources are now exposed to being prosecuted and put in prison. you did the war logs and the war diaries dump and then, you then released all of these diplomatic cables which had different kinds of information secret, confidential information involving the us government s contacts with individuals on the ground in a whole host of countries. just to take one small example, but not small to the individual involved, an ethiopian journalist, reporter argaw ashine was forced to flee the country because he was named in a us cable and he believed it put his life in immediate danger. he had to flee, leave his homeland, and again, wouldn t have happened had you not taken your decision to leak. again, you know, you re talking about situations that
there s no question that he s a journalist, but he is being accused of conspiring with a source. and what does that mean? well, he spoke to his source and if that is a crime, then everyjournalist at least those that speak to sources are now exposed to being prosecuted and put in prison. you did the war logs and the war diaries dump and then, you then released all of these diplomatic cables which had different kinds of information secret, confidential information involving the us government s contacts with individuals on the ground in a whole host of countries. just to take one small example, but not small to the individual involved, an ethiopian journalist, reporter argaw ashine was forced to flee the country because he was named in a us cable and he believed it put his life in immediate danger. he had to flee, leave his homeland, and again, wouldn t have happened had you not taken your decision to leak. again, you know, you re talking