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sources, not themselves. And I have to say one more time, the same law that applies to sources
can be directed at the journalists and now is being directed in the form of Julian, and he will not
be the last.
So the intention of this, of course, is to confront people with extreme punishment and to go back
to the nature of this punishment, by the way, let's say, Snowden, despite the fact that this week
there was actually some good news for the first time, which is that a court has held that the law
that Snowden revealed actually, that is to say, the process that he revealed of hearing
everybody in America having denied that they were doing that and having been forbidden by
law to do that, that that was criminal. The law was illegal and probably unconstitutional. Does
that mean that Snowden is home free, that he can't be prosecuted for breaking a law that was
held to be unconstitutional here or exposing a practice that was unconstitutional? No, no,
revealing it is still, the offense, and what would happen to him if he came back? I can predict
that on the excuse of keeping him from telling more secrets to inmates in the general population
in prison, he will be held in solitary confinement for the rest of his life.
I would say, like my friend Mordechai Vanunu, (AKA John Crossman), in Israel, who spent 11
and a half years of a 17-year sentence in solitary confinement. And when Alice mentioned the
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