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It really is troubling. Is there any similar law in the US? I think a conclusion you'd have to draw from the Pentagon Papers controversy is that if the gov't
by CWuestefeld 13y ago
It really is troubling.
Is there any similar law in the US?
I think a conclusion you'd have to draw from the Pentagon Papers controversy is that if the gov't want to keep something secret, it's their own responsibility to do so. Once the information leaked, it was then legal to print the documents. And if that's true, then it must also be legal to read them.
- BuildTheRobots 13y agoActually, I'm relatively certain that within current legal frameworks, public, published documents can be retroactively classified making you a criminal if you refuse to hand back your copy.
- hga 13y agoSomething like that can be true for nuclear weapons related stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_secret http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_secret