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>it's illegal to report an attack by US intelligence agencies

Could you expand more on that?



IANAL, but New York Times Co. v. United States is a famous precedent for the first amendment protecting the press' right to publish classified government documents.


That's what I was kind of getting at, the press is free to publish pretty much anything they'd like AFAIK.




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