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No, it is not illegal to read Wikileaks

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> it’s illegal to possess these stolen documents,

In this whole process one sure thing I learned is that popular media is a joke. Anyone else remembers CNN being a rather decent news source? I am thinking late 90's or so... Or maybe I was younger and more naive.

I imagine it was always subservient to its owners and to their ideology. However it didn't seem to be a parody of itself, which is what it seems like now.

As to the illegality, yes, it is illegal if you have clearance. But if you do, hopefully you don't need CNN to remind you of that. (To expand on it, for those who don't know, just because documents have been leaked it doesn't' mean they automatically get declassified. So someone with clearance reading them might have a hard time answering the "I have accessed classified documents that I didn't need for my daily job..." question). Presenting it as illegal to the general public is a blatant lie.

> Cuomo says. “It’s different for the media, so everything you’re learning about this, you’re learning from us.”

This is your Soviet style propaganda crap right here. Unsophisticated and blunt. "Don't listen to anyone else or you are doing illegal things, listen only to us. Let us interpret the reality for you".

Is this a sign of desperation. I don't follow this very closely, I thought Hillary is winning this easily anyway?

Yeah, it's same with not being able to confirm even open secrets when you have classified knowledge. So even if the public knows that our nuclear codes were set to 00000 at some point, actually confirming that if you knew it would be a violation.

CNN, though, has pretty much become the Cartoon News Network. They don't even seem to know that we don't have term limits on Congress. That's worse than the Aleppo thing, to me, honestly.

Wasn't it the CNN that basically made up their whole operation desert eagle storm coverage? Or is that a YouTube urban legend?

It's not just YouTube.

As in "it's not just YouTube that perpetuate that urban legend" or its not just YouTube that's a source for it?

The source for the idea is something other than just videos to be found on YouTube. CNN was a big money loser prior to the first Gulf War. I first heard that well before the advent of YouTube.

TV has never been a decent news source, and the desperate-to-fill-24-hours-of-airtime-every-day-with-newsy-content cable networks have been significant worse than the broadcast networks the whole time they've existed. About the only exception was around the time of the 1990-1991 Gulf Crisis/War, where CNN did a pretty decent job at relaying government briefings, at least (other aspects of their coverage may have been problematic, but that one thing they did well, and there was more of that to do than non-24hr news outlets had time for.)

CNN certainly wasn't a decent news source in the late 1990s.

Here's the video in question:

https://youtu.be/Jww8pOdPZpM

Chris Cuomo is a lawyer and a Yale graduate, and his father and brother have both been governor of New York.

Real Italian food or not, those breadsticks are plain addictive.

For realz. And it's at least two notches above Chef Boy-ar-dee.

But a near-guaranteed way to get yourself tracked.

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