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JULIAN Assange dared Emmanuel Macron to call for his arrest after Wikileaks released thousands of hacked emails from the French President’s election campaign.

By Vickie Oliphant @ Express.co.uk, UPDATED: 19:11, Wed, Aug 2, 2017

Help: Moderator/PP? Damn I

artappraiser — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 23:59:15 +0000

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Help: Moderator/PP? Damn I put my comment on the wrong thread! And then ocean-kat put a great reply to it. Any chance you can you split them off and put them where they belong, 1 story down on the News feed? here: DOJ warns the media could be targeted in crackdown on leaks

Fixed, see below

done! one thread on topic,

artappraiser — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 23:56:47 +0000

In reply to yo thanks brilliant, right

done! Moderators: ignore my former request above; one thread on topic, fixed, thanks again NCD

The smaller guys are going to

artappraiser — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 23:53:50 +0000

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The smaller guys are going to have to think about lawyering up, WaPo and NYT already been there, done that. I recall during the Bush years with the whole Judith Miller contempt-of-court thing that they all joined together? Josh Marshall concentrated on that beat, haven't checked TPM yet.

Axios has gotten some leaks, not editorializing yet, only a Shane Shavitsky report noting

One big thing: Sessions said that the DOJ might begin reviewing the potential for media subpoenas, saying that the press does not have an "unlimited" role in American society. "They cannot place lives at risk with impunity. We must balance the press' role with protecting our national security and the lives of those who serve in our intelligence community, the armed forces, and all law-abiding Americans."

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Notable: Sessions and Coats — along with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who was also present — left without taking questions from the assembled press corps.

What the NYTimes & WaPo have

artappraiser — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 23:52:45 +0000

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What the NYTimes & WaPo have so far, future Editorials could get interesting. I note the reporters assigned are not ones known to get leaks:

Investigations on Leaks Triple Under Trump, Sessions Says

By CHARLIE SAVAGE and EILEEN SULLIVAN 1:30 PM ET

Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, vowed to bring criminal charges against those found to have given classified information to the news media.
The announcement came days after President Trump accused Mr. Sessions of being weak on the issue.

Sessions says leak probes have tripled since end of Obama administration

The attorney general offered the first public confirmation of the breadth of the Justice Department’s efforts to crack down on unauthorized disclosures of sensitive information. He also said the department is reviewing policy on issuing subpoenas to reporters: “This culture of leaking must stop.”

By Matt Zapotosky and Devlin Barrett

The Fix: Are leaks to the media as dangerous as Sessions says they are?

yo thanks brilliant, right

artappraiser — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 23:47:48 +0000

In reply to rename the thread?

yo thanks brilliant, right now I will just redo the post with the correct story and then repost Russia probe story afterwards! Believe it or not, I got my junior high's award at algebra, but that part of my brain has obviously atrophied.

rename the thread?

NCD — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 23:07:36 +0000

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rename the thread?