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Yes Mannings document release was in no way at all comparable to Ellsberg. If Manning had released specific note: specific documents relating to crimes this wou

Yes Mannings document release was in no way at all comparable to Ellsberg. If Manning had released specific note: specific documents relating to crimes this would be a totally different story. IE: Just leaking the collateral murder video, or other specific crimes, and going through a reporter who properly vets the content is totally different that a site wide document dump. Just because you don't like one thing the government is doing does not mean you can release everything the government is doing. It is illegal to disseminate, store, transmit, etc, classified material if you aren't allowed to do so. That is the crime, and it also against the AUP and is laid out right near the beginning of the document here: http://aws.amazon.com/aup/ http://aws.amazon.com/aup/

btilly 13y ago
It is illegal to disseminate, store, transmit, etc, classified material if you aren't allowed to do so. Really? Which law? Can you point to examples of judges agreeing with this theory? Why did nobody come down on various newspapers for transmitting the clearly classified information that they got from Snowden?
- res0nat0r 13y ago
  Feel free to read wikipedia as a starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information > Access is restricted by law or regulation to particular groups of people and mishandling can incur criminal penalties. I'm sure someone could have tried to throw the hammer down about the Snowden leak, but they probably realized they would look ridiculous doing that over a few Powerpoint slides vs. thousands of diplomatic cables and other information which were released by Manning. Also note: Snowden is releasing specific information related to a specific crime. I keep repeating this because it is highly relevant to whistleblower protections && reporter shields etc.

btilly 13y ago

It is illegal to disseminate, store, transmit, etc, classified material if you aren't allowed to do so. Really? Which law? Can you point to examples of judges agreeing with this theory? Why did nobody come down on various newspapers for transmitting the clearly classified information that they got from Snowden?

res0nat0r 13y ago
Feel free to read wikipedia as a starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information > Access is restricted by law or regulation to particular groups of people and mishandling can incur criminal penalties. I'm sure someone could have tried to throw the hammer down about the Snowden leak, but they probably realized they would look ridiculous doing that over a few Powerpoint slides vs. thousands of diplomatic cables and other information which were released by Manning. Also note: Snowden is releasing specific information related to a specific crime. I keep repeating this because it is highly relevant to whistleblower protections && reporter shields etc.