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| Justice Dept. debating charges against WikiLeaks members in revelations of diplomatic, CIA materials |
| 2017-04-21 |
| [WAPO] Federal prosecutors are weighing whether to bring criminal charges against members of the WikiLeaks organization, taking a second look at a 2010 leak of diplomatic cables and military documents and investigating whether the group bears criminal responsibility for the more recent revelation of sensitive CIA cyber-tools, according to people familiar with the case. The Justice Department under President Barack Obama had decided not to charge WikiLeaks for revealing some of the government’s most sensitive secrets — concluding that doing so would be akin to prosecuting a news organization for publishing classified information. Justice Department leadership under President Trump, though, has indicated to prosecutors that it is open to taking another look at the case, which the Obama administration did not formally close. |
| Posted by:JohnQC |
| #4 Please, please go after Clintons if you need high profile targets! |
| Posted by: Jumbo Untervehr7000 2017-04-21 23:14 |
| #3 No, you don't ever want to involve innocence family. This can turn into a nasty feedback cycle. |
| Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-04-21 21:17 |
| #2 If we're at war with someone, we ought to feel it. These kinds of tools just allow the government to obscure the fact. China has back-doors in a lot of its routing hardware. How does everyone feel about this? No comment from the government. The ones who need to be nailed to a cross are the clowns who set up "security" for the CIA's crown jewels and the clowns who decided to have everything in one place. Next go after whomever stole and leaked the secrets. And I think a couple of phone calls to Assange letting him know that we know where his family lives would have stopped him in his tracks. |
| Posted by: gorb 2017-04-21 12:32 |
#1  The Justice Department under President Barack Obama had decided not to charge WikiLeaks for revealing some of the government’s most sensitive secrets.Charging the "leakers" might reveal their sources and hasten the possible discovery that the "leaks" were intentional. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-04-21 08:58 |