The USA was founded by sedition and insurrection. Protesting the war on terror and expressing my discontent for it is a seditious act. Even the Tea Party is sedition. In a country where free speech abounds, laws against sedition have no teeth.
Now giving out intelligence about current military operations in a war, that would fall under espionage and treason.
Wikileaks poses 'security threat' to US Army
Summary
A leaked US Army intelligence report, classified as secret, says the Wikileaks website poses a significant "operational security and information security" threat to military operations.
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A leaked US Army intelligence report, classified as secret, says the Wikileaks website poses a significant "operational security and information security" threat to military operations.
Classified US military information appearing on Wikileaks could "influence operations against the US Army by a variety of domestic and foreign actors", says the report, prepared in 2008 by the Army Counterintelligence Center and apparently disclosed in its entirety on Monday. The 32-page document was published by Wikileaks, but not before editor Julian Assange prepended a critique saying some details in the Army report were inaccurate and its recommendations flawed.
One section of the original document says "criminal prosecution" of anyone leaking sensitive information could "deter others considering similar actions from using the Wikileaks.org website". Another speculates that Wikileaks — which boasts that it is "uncensorable" — is "knowingly encouraging criminal activities", including violation of national security laws regarding sedition and espionage.
For more on this story, see U.S. Army worried about Wikileaks in secret report on CNET News.
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Snooki_smoosh_smoosh16th Mar 2010 -
If Wikileaks knows....
If Wikileaks knows, imagine what the enemy really knows!
That is, asssuming we have any real enemies these days. Pretty much all espionage nowadays is merely economic.
monkeyman1140@...16th Mar 2010 -
RE: Wikileaks poses 'security threat' to US Army
This is absurd.
US Army: If you don't want your foes reading your sensitive data, you'd better look into this thing called encryption. Apparently, with this technology if implemented properly, only the inteneded reciepient of your data can actually decode it.
Am I the only one who finds it funny that wikileaks leaked the document about the "danger" of wikileaks.
putty.master16th Mar 2010 -
One can stretch ANY definition....
for example, "The Sun is an imminent danger to our planet Earth" (in about 5 billion years).
Global warming is melting the polar ice caps ....
(duh, we are comming out of an ice age)!
Blah, blah, blah!
kd5auq16th Mar 2010 -
Wow.. they got some balls... but no teeth.
I can see where they have a point with current military operations in a war zone, but anything else... not really sure what they are complaining about.
Personally, if its top secret, they should encrypt it. Its their duty to keep the information secure from attackers. Failing to do so should result in disciplinary action inside the military.
Been_Done_Before16th Mar 2010 -
A secret once leaked is not a secret
A secret once leaked is not secret anymore. You may think you can attack the site and thus make it secret again, but there are so many sites around the world it could go to.
Thus censoring the site that publish the leak can never work.
And the Army man who wrote this is an idiot. Am I allowed to say that?
guihombre18th Mar 2010
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