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Hillary Clinton campaign officials discussed how to handle donations from foreign agents in an email exchange released by WikiLeaks, a discussion that apparently was ended when communications director Jennifer Palmieri ordered “Take the money!”

The Clinton campaign was faced with whether it “should continue to take money from people who were registered with the U.S. government as foreign government agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.”

Dennis Cheng, the Clinton campaign’s national finance director, said, “We are leaving a good amount of money on the table.”

The next day, campaign manager Robby Mook said, “I’m ok just taking the money and dealing with any attacks.”

The verdict, however, apparently came the following day from Palmieri: “Take the money!!”

The exchange is available at WikiLeaks site.

The verdict, however, apparently came the following day from Palmieri: “Take the money!!”

The exchange is available at WikiLeaks site.

The Foreign Agents Registration Act was created in 1938 as a disclosure statute that “requires persons acting as agents of foreign principals in a political or quasi-political capacity to make periodic public disclosure of their relationship with the foreign principal, as well as activities, receipts and disbursements in support of those activities.”

So which is worse? breaking the law, or someone breaking the law to expose the corruption?



maybe this will help those with a moral outrage towards wikileaks..
A clear example of journalists fulfilling this responsibility, albeit in a way that pushed the boundaries of journalism ethics, is the work of Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein exposing the Watergate scandal in 1972 and 1973. Though few would dispute the importance of their reporting, the pair at times engaged in tactics that were questionable at best. In his book Mightier than the Sword: How the News Media Have Shaped American History, Rodger Streitmatter writes that the Woodward and Bernstein “begged, lied, badgered sources, and, on occasion, broke the law” in order to get the leads and confirmations needed to run their stories
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