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The only crime being committed that matters is what he uncovered. If a Journalist walked on to private property to find an officer peeing on evidence or torturing an innocent person and then took that to the press, you wouldn't charge the journalist for trespassing.


Even, torturing a guilty person.

The US executed people for torture after WWII. (None of its own people, though. That is acknowledged as an unfortunate failing.)




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