| Publication of classified material may breach the Espionage Act Position1 #85328 The publication of classifed US material by WikiLeaks might lead to charges under the US Espionage Act. |
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Author: James Ching, Law.com
Cited by: François Dongier 7:56 PM 8 January 2011 GMT
Citerank: (2) 85553Bradley ManningBradley Manning, a US soldier, claimed responsibility for leaking to Wikileaks the "Collateral Murder" video, a video of the Granai airstrike and approximately 250,000 individual US embassy cables. He has been arrested and charged with unauthorized use and disclosure of U.S. classified information24D3B8AB, 88053Although chargeable under the Espionage Act, Assange is untouchableAny fair analysis of the Espionage Act shows that he is chargeable, and yet any fair analysis of the political reality indicates that he is untouchable. WikiLeaks is joined at the hip with The New York Times et al., and the unofficial policy against charging news organizations protects them all. 13EF597B
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| Excerpt / Summary Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, among others, have called for an espionage prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The thrust of their argument is that Assange has violated § 793(e) of the Espionage Act by willfully releasing U.S. documents and information relating to the national defense that he had reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation. |