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Am I the only one for whom this seems like a case of mass fail in reading comprehenson? Did anyone actually read the letter? Nowhere in the letter does the St
by zmmmmm 16y ago
Am I the only one for whom this seems like a case of mass fail in reading comprehenson? Did anyone actually read the letter?
Nowhere in the letter does the State Department say that what Wikileaks is doing is illegal. They use ambiguous and misleading language to imply that but in effect they just keep stating that the original leaker broke the law. If anything, by omission of a direct claim of illegality, this letter is confirmation by the State Department that what Wikileaks did was in fact, TOTALLY LEGAL.
Of course, given that PayPal routinely suspends accounts for absolutely no reason at all we can hardly be surprised if they suspend this one. They've always done this and nobody expects more of them.
- pbhjpbhj 16y ago>this letter is confirmation by the State Department that what Wikileaks did was in fact, TOTALLY LEGAL. I don't know USA law that well, certainly not whatever your equivalent of the UK Official Secrets Act is or your counter-espionage laws. But it stricts me as a no-brainer to assume that publishing documents classified by the government as restricted (or above, secret, top-secret, etc.) would be a criminal offence with a pretty hefty jail sentence attached. Is it really not a crime in the US to publish or hold without clearance documents classified as "secret"?