Plot: Ben Bradlee and Kay Graham of The Washington Post challenge the federal government for the right to
publish classified information in 1971.
The Justice Department under President Barack Obama decided not to charge WikiLeaks for revealing some of the government's most sensitive secrets — concluding that doing so would be akin to prosecuting a news organization for
publishing classified information.
The film ultimately draws to a damning conclusion, arguing that WikiLeaks that once began as a decentralized publishing organisation, became more a tool to allow Assange to evade moral responsibility, not just for
publishing classified information, but also for other misdemeanours in his private life.
Not exact matches
Even farther back, the Post
published the Pentagon Papers —
classified documents on the war in Vietnam that were leaked by Daniel Ellsberg — and it also
published information it got from an administration source about the Watergate break - ins and the connection to President Richard Nixon.
Less than an hour after news site The Intercept
published a report on Monday detailing Russian hacking related to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the U.S. Justice Department said federal investigators had arrested someone suspected of leaking
classified information to the media.
While WikiLeaks is perhaps best known for
publishing US State Department diplomatic cables, documents from the Democratic National Committee, and
classified information provided by then - Army Spc. Bradley Manning, the site also sells T - shirts and apparel to its supporters.
In another brilliant look at the
publishing industry, author Hugh Howey has crafted a list of unanswered questions, questions that are not being answered for authors but that also shouldn't be
classified, top - secret
information.
The web portal is a publication that
publishes classified media, news leaks, and secret
information stemming from governments and corporations.