Intent to harm America is not required to make the mishandling of information criminal - it simply requires that the actor was grossly negligent.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
But certainly I didn't know he was doing anything that was criminal.
Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.
Michael Brown's death and the suffocation of Eric Garner in New York for selling untaxed cigarettes indicate something is wrong with criminal justice in America.
American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.
Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud case would require that the reporter's deceit had been malicious and resulted in financial gain.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Whistle-blowing and publishing should not be seen as a crime, and certainly not as terrorism.
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.
I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect.