By Blake Neff, DCNF
CNN’s Chris Cuomo told viewers it is illegal for them to possess emails leaked by the website WikiLeaks, and as a result they could not read them and had to rely entirely on the media to learn about their content.
Cuomo’s comments were made early Wednesday morning, but they attracted no attention until a clip was uploaded to YouTube Sunday morning.
WATCH:
In the clip, Cuomo opens a segment on leaked emails from Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s inbox by warning viewers they have to get all their information about the emails from the media, and nowhere else. If they try to check out the emails themselves, Cuomo warns, they’re breaking the law.
“Also interesting is, remember, it’s illegal to possess these stolen documents,” Cuomo says. “It’s different for the media, so everything you’re learning about this, you’re learning from us.”
Cuomo’s claim is faulty on a few counts. While the government might potentially prosecute somebody purely for the act of downloading stolen documents, legal experts are divided on whether such a prosecution would be constitutional. Even if downloading the emails were illegal, that is totally irrelevant in this case, because nobody has to download the WikiLeaks emails in order to read them. They’re all freely available to read on a website anybody can access.
Whatever the legal status of downloading the emails, there is absolutely no restriction on simply reading them, despite what Cuomo implies.
Hillary suggests anyone who has clicked on a @wikileaks link should BleachBit their laptop and then smash it with a hammer just to be safe. pic.twitter.com/1xwYA94t1o
— Hillary PR Team (@OnMessageForHer) October 16, 2016
To avoid any potential MAJOR FEDERAL CRIMES all citizens ought avoid the internet entirely and get their election info exclusively from CNN. pic.twitter.com/KjciVKoBA6
— Hillary PR Team (@OnMessageForHer) October 16, 2016
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