re: #95 Slumbering Behemoth

I’m not sure any reasonable, sane people would have a problem with stopping someone from publishing stolen, classified information.

I’ve thought a lot about this, and it’s not sane, reasonable people I’m necessarily concerned with, but FOX News watching Tea Party “freedom fighters.” There’s just no way that you’re going to convince those people that an Obama DOD engaging in prior restraint of the free press would be okay. Consistency isn’t a virtue for these people, it won’t matter that last week they hated Assange for endangering our allies and soldiers, they’d jump all over any excuse to rail against the perception of encroaching totalitarianism. A Republican President might be able to get away with it, maybe, but I think you credit the public with far too much rationality, integrity, and intelligence.