He is quite literally arguing that the power of the US government to prohibit the disclosure of information that it and it alone designates as sensitive is strongest when the person making the disclosure is neither an American citizen nor a resident of the US. Think about that for a moment. Then think about the cognitive dissonance involved in Thiessen simultaneously decrying the injustice of and impropriety of other countries’ attempts to pass “laws of universal jurisdiction.”
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