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jancsika on April 12, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Julian Assange Deserves First Amendment Protection

> The next time I get caught trying to hack the government I'm going to try the "but it was for journalism" defense.

Please define "hack the government" in a way compatible with what the indictment describes Assange having done.

alexeldeib on April 12, 2019 [–]

The first line of parent's comment is accurate in terms of of the indictment, if that's what you're getting at?

http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/images/04/11/assange_indictment_...

> 7. On or about March 8, 2010, Assange agreed to assist Manning in cracking a password stored on United States Department of Defense computers

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