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WikiLeaks Took Advice From Media Outlets
formfeed writes "According to the AP (through Google News), WikiLeaks isn't just sitting on the recent material so they can release it bit by bit to the press, as many people implied. On the contrary, it's quite the other way around: 'only after considering advice from five news organizations with which it chose to share all of the material' are they releasing it themselves. These newspapers 'have been advising WikiLeaks on which documents to release publicly and what redactions to make to those documents.' AP questions whether WikiLeaks will follow these redactions, but nevertheless seems quite impressed by this 'extraordinary collaboration between some of the world's most respected media outlets and the WikiLeaks organization.'"
I wonder if some of the anti-WikiLeaks fervor evident among US lawmakers will also be brought to bear against the AP and other mainstream media sources. Update: 12/05 17:42 GMT by T : Yes, that's WikiLeaks, rather than (as originally rendered) WikiPedia. HT to reader Mike Hearn.
I miss your lustrous white hair. WHy did you cut it?
What exactly is Wikileaks doing that all these other media organizations aren't also doing?
No one gave Wikileaks a security clearance; they are incapable of leaking anything. They are merely publishing information that was leaked by someone else. So how are all these attacks on Wikileaks' right to publish justified vs. those of the NY Times or the Associated Press?
Where does this notion about them not having a security clearance making them immune to prosecution come from? It doesn't matter if anyone at Wikileaks has/had a security clearance. The dissemination of classified US Defense information is STILL ILLEGAL under US law. Please see Sections 793, 794, 798, Title 18, United States Code.
http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/37/798
http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/37/794
http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/37/793
It's the spy agencies with their black ops, clandestine operations, psych-ops. It's agencies like the FBI that will entrap you. It's agencies like the NSA that will provide the information to the FBI. These agencies have unlimited power, they aren't bound by the law because nobody really knows what the secrets are or what the operations are.
What we can see is an operation has begun. The financial resources are being choked off. After that then the people who donated to Wikileaks have to worry because their names are now in the possession of the agencies and sorts of people who hate Wikileaks and their supporters, and these people don't respect human rights.