@emptywheel@mastodon bear with me as I try to understand. Area Substacker was NOT charged with espionage himself for printing Reality Winner’s stolen NSA reports proving DFG was lying about Russian hacking in 2016 presidential election, b/c he himself did not “steal”. GG blew the whistle on the whistleblower and DOJ was fine with calling RW’s crime “espionage” & protecting GG’s 1A rights, but YOU *could* be charged w/espionage for sharing an NYT article that reveals stuff Assange stole?