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DOJ announces WikiLeaks criminal investigation
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>>>>>Attorney General Eric Holder has announced that the Department of Justice and the Department of Defense are conducting a criminal investigation of WikiLeaks over its release of confidential government communications.
>>>>>Shouldn't they be investigating the ones whole stole the info instead?
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>>>>He's been locked up for 7 months....awaiting court martial....
>>>>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/28/how-us-embassy-cables-leaked
>>>
>>>Oh - I didn't realize that these new leaks came from the same source. I don't understand then - just what exactly does the DOD and DOJ plan to nail WikiLeaks with? The shoot the messenger law or what? Is the fact that they published this stuff that someone else ripped of illegal? Perhaps it is I dunno....
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>>Uh yeah. At a minimum, espionage:
>>http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000793----000-.html
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>>The U.S. can go after him:
>>http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fbi/olc_override.pdf
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>>But, it's quite a conundrum - any US agents who attempt such an unlawful arrest (unlawful under the host country's laws) could be liable to prosecution themselves by the host country. Remember this:
>>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/world/europe/05italy.html?_r=1
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>>Not to mention the public relations nightmare. The U.S. loses no matter what. It already lost. Now that state department communications were also leaked, I'm starting to put more weight in Charles' theory....
>
>So this means that everyone who downloaded the torrent of all this is now guilty of espionage?

If the government says you are, yes. That's the scary part.
Regards. Al

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