07-27-2010, 07:54 PM
(07-27-2010, 05:25 PM)kandrathe Wrote: I suppose. This is the type of crap that makes them want to regulate the internet. If they had the power of the "panic button", it would have been pressed last week.
Isn't there something somewhere in the Constitution about freedom of the press? The First Amendment? I'm pretty sure the government is constitutionally forbidden from just outright censoring the internet.
Quote:I hope people keep track of how many death's of leaked "collaborators", and NATO soldiers will be on WikiLeaks heads.
My guess is very few, if any. Nothing in those documents was classified higher than "secret". It's not like there are long lists of informants in there, or the secret identities of deep undercover CIA agents. The worst of it is embarrassingly public admission of things that were already more or less common knowledge - the Taliban is surprisingly well armed, special forces and black ops are used to go after high-value targets beyond the official scope of operation, the Pakistani secret service is in cahoots with the enemy, and so on.
-Jester