I'm trying to reconcile the points made here by this scholar of legal ethics and with Brett Oppegaard's June 5 column. Particularly with the recent assertion from WikiLeaks Julian Assange that the FBI claims that a Pierre Omidyar-owned publication reporter led them to a NSA leaker Reality Winner. 

The Justice Department said Reality Winner, a 25-year-old National Security Agency contractor, sent top secret information to a news outlet, Omidyar's The Intercept, who in turn provided a copy of the printed NSA report to the FBI in order to seek comment which then resulted in her arrest.

Critics assert The Intercept gave the government crucial clues about where its reporting was from. The website shared its leaked document with the government, which apparently helped officials narrow their search for the source.

Are Omidyar's publications cherry-picking which sources they choose to protect and which ones they recklessly hand over to the government for prosecution?