Government Wins Right to Pretend That Cables Released by WikiLeaks Are Still Secret

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Government Wins Right to Pretend That Cables Released by WikiLeaks Are Still Secret
Anonymous Coward User ID: 20552695 United States 07/26/2012 05:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Government Wins Right to Pretend That Cables Released by WikiLeaks Are Still Secret Pretend all you want you jerkwads! [link to www.aclu.org] Government Wins Right to Pretend That Cables Released by WikiLeaks Are Still Secret This morning a federal judge ruled that the government is free to continue pretending that the contents of State Department diplomatic cables already disclosed by WikiLeaks are secret. The case concerns an ACLU Freedom of Information Act request seeking 23 embassy cables that had been previously released by WikiLeaks, posted online, and widely discussed in the press. The government had responded by releasing redacted versions of 11 cables and withholding the other 12 in full. The cables we requested reveal the diplomatic harms of widely criticized U.S. government policies, including torture, detention and rendition of detainees, detention at Guantanamo, and the use of drones to carry out targeted killings. The State Department claims that the withheld cables are classified, and thus so secret that they cannot be released—despite the fact that they are already accessible to anyone in the world with an internet connection and a passing interest in current events. In order to avoid releasing its own copies of the cables, the government was required to prove to the court that doing so would cause harm to national security. It offered explanations of why releasing secret State Department cables might harm relations with foreign governments or disclose sensitive information, but failed to explain what harm would come from releasing cables that are already available to the public in full, and that the government has admitted have been leaked. The court accepted the government’s lackluster arguments, and did not even discuss the requirement that when information is already in the public domain, the government must explain what additional harms would occur from re-release of that information by the government itself.

Factual Error User ID: 19116606 United States 07/26/2012 05:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Government Wins Right to Pretend That Cables Released by WikiLeaks Are Still Secret This is not surprising. The Federal government has been legally able to "pretend" that Area 51 doesn't exist for years. Not intended to be a factual statement.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 20419053 Australia 07/26/2012 05:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Government Wins Right to Pretend That Cables Released by WikiLeaks Are Still Secret I don't mind if they kill muzlims kill away happy hunting
FireSpirit User ID: 20556841 United States 07/26/2012 05:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Government Wins Right to Pretend That Cables Released by WikiLeaks Are Still Secret So, what does this mean? That every single person (countless thousands, millions?) who have this classified data on their computers from Wikileaks are criminals? Does that mean that the thousands upon thousands of people mirroring Wikileaks, and sharing IRAQ records and videos as Bittorrent files are subject to getting thrown in jail? Since when did this ever become a problem in America? I thought this was the country that allowed free speech and supported the right of the people to stand up against the abuses of their government. What happened to the US 1st Amendment? Come on! Civilians sharing classified data on a massive scale is simply ... well, not classified anymore. It's up to them to keep it so and they failed. They failed because they first had a moral failure that obligated a person of conscience to reveal it in the first place. Talk about cover-ups! Celebrate the God Among Us ~FireSpirit
BillySorrow User ID: 23506985 Hungary 09/10/2012 03:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Government Wins Right to Pretend That Cables Released by WikiLeaks Are Still Secret What this actually means is that they are so frightened of the situation that they simply decided to stay in their fairytale version of reality because they are chickens. That's a mass epidemical illness these days but it's good to know that it affects wanna-be-ruling-class-scum as well
Anonymous Coward User ID: 9231012 United States 09/10/2012 04:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Government Wins Right to Pretend That Cables Released by WikiLeaks Are Still Secret What it really means is IF they feel the need or want to pick on anyone that has viewed or passed this data they can. They know they messed up and lost control but this way if they can't control the data they can still control the people accessing it if you get in their radar scope for any reason. It's the only control they have now, it is ALWAYS about control.
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