Re: The Legality of Publishing Hacked E-Mails

[Paul M Moriarty <pmm () igtc com>]

The difference, as the BBC article points out, is whether the journalist either encouraged or participated in the 
illegal act.  Not so for the Pentagon Papers, seemingly so for the Lookout Services incident.

- Paul -

On Dec 17, 2009, at 3:19 AM, Larry Seltzer wrote:

> > From the point of view of the newspaper this is *exactly* like the
> Pentagon Papers case. Those papers were illegally leaked, but the
> Supreme Court held that the government could not enjoin newspapers from
> publishing them.
>
> Larry Seltzer
> Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
> larry_seltzer () ziffdavis com 
> http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/
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