This is very interesting to me. The statement from Geoff Morrell seems weirdly passive-aggressive. "Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell made clear this was not a

This is very interesting to me. The statement from Geoff Morrell seems weirdly passive-aggressive. "Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell made clear this was not a request" Which implies legal ramifications. "We are making a demand of them," Morrell said. "We are asking them to do the right thing." It's not a request, it's a demand, but they are _asking_ them to do the right thing. If you're in the position to make demands, you don't cross your fingers and hope people do what you think is right. You just make sure they do it. "If doing the right thing is not good enough for them," the Pentagon spokesman said, alternatives will be explored "to make them do the right thing." Well thus far the Pentagon is basically begging. If they had a legal stick to hand I'm sure they'd be using it already. So, what I'm interested to know, is how they plan on compelling Wikileaks to withhold the information. My sense is that they're not exactly on a firm footing. That's not to say they won't come up with a strategy eventually, it's just this statement makes them seem uncertain.