I really don't think Hartmanns defence is up to much:
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“For me and my lawyers, it’s a question of free speech and the right to inform, with transparency, the public on a subject of public interest,” she said.
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... its not as if this information about Serbia was disclosed for free. To get it you had to buy her book from which we can safely assume she profitted.
The Hague court is enforcing Serbias request that its state documents be kept secret. The fact Serbia allowed these documents into the Hague judicial process is to be applauded. But what is the chance of any further such gesture from any government given the Hague cannot guarentee enforcement of its own rules in how it deals with issues of sovereign interest?
Hartmanns got her book deal , that all that matters to her. The Hague, tribunal justice and the cause of the public interests in these matters has been damaged as a result. So her flimsey defence amounts to nothing. She was not a private citizen who stumbled accross this information. As long as she was being paid by the Tribunal she seemed to have no interest in putting the "public interest" in proceedings there above her renumeration.
If she had quit to make the information public then she might have a case based on the fact she would have demonstrated her integrity. As it is, she seems to have none.