Julian Assange is closest to the most important aspect as we see it. The right to anonymity in the US for political purposes is a tested right. The reason is exactly for situations like this, To be protected from the powerful. Ideally for exposing truths about them, but its no less a right for satire.
CNN is organized crime at this point. Imagine if the mob could legally blackmail every witness that wanted to tell the truth about their activities?
Arrests need to be made at CNN and trials need to happen.
President Donald Trump launched a new broadside against CNN on Thursday, telling reporters in Warsaw, Poland that the network has ‘serious problems’.
DailyMail.com asked him during his first press conference on foreign soil to comment on the network’s threat to expose the identity of a man thought to be behind a video Trump tweeted on Sunday, which superimposed the CNN logo over a man as Trump was body-slamming him.
‘I think what CNN did was unfortunate for them. As you know, now they have some pretty serious problems,’ Trump said.
‘They have been fake news for a long time. They’ve been covering me in a very, very dishonest way.’
The video below deals with some of the relevant laws.
H/T Buck, M.,
CNN has proven that they are autocrats who think they are above both the law and criticism. Having said that I can understand how liars like CNN are so sensitive, they are afraid because they know they are not following the rules of good journalism and are in fact going well beyond what is considered to be allowable political attacks.
Should they be prosecuted for the State laws violated (2 different states, New York and Georgia) and the Federal statues? YES this is behavior that can’t be tolerated in a free society.
What total hypocrisy! These same ink-stained wretches always insist that they will go to prison in order to avoid revealing their sources.
When something threatens their Liberal narrative, suddenly they are all too eager to reveal the source involved. So-called “journalistic integrity” has become an oxymoron.