The legal adviser to the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, and professor Alan Dershowitz, Harvard University do not fear about a possible denunciation of the U.S. authorities against his client in making public secret documents.“In the event that U.S. authorities seek to report only to publish secret documents I have excellent arguments against,” Dershowitz said in a statement today advanced by the German weekly Der Spiegel.”
“When all is said and done, he adds, the judges in the process called ‘Pentagon Papers’, in which participated 40 years ago, ruled that he had a right to publish such documents.”
In that case dealt with the right means, such as “The New York Times, to bring to light critical documents about the Vietnam War, although then the U.S. government believed it threatened national security. Dershowitz believes that Assange is in a similar situation, since it is “the modern version of a journalist. The proceedings against him would be the ‘Pentagon Papers’ of the XXI century. This is new media and a new form of journalism global. “
The famous American criminal attacks to the authorities in Washington to say about the use of new media in countries like Egypt or Iran. So we must make it clear they can not measure with double standards and limit the use of new media if it affects U.S. interests. “
“In addition, a U.S. court can not be competent to a foreign organization as WikiLeaks, which has never been active in the United States,” said Assange.
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