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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Your right, he's way to high profile to dissapear, and I doubt that the house members are stupid enough to be discussing that. If they were they've been reading to many Tom Clancy novels.
I think at this point, for the U.S. government the damage is done. While the documents released about Canada were interesting they weren't unexpected.
http://www.canada.com/news/Canadians...117/story.html
However releasing documents about banks and other major corporations might be wikileaks downfall as he's now dealing in stolen work papers, something that courts tend to take a really dim view of. One of those banks might end up owning Wikileaks. |
Don't be so sure. Remember, WikiLeaks is not the one to steal these documents. Whoever leaks them is the one responsible for that criminal act. WikiLeaks acts much like any media outlet, be it newspaper or television: the one that wants to rat comes to them -- not the other way around. They publish what has been given to them. You really get into sticky territory when you start looking to sue and/or shut-up a group (can it even be called a group?) like WikiLeaks because it can be argued they are only practicing free speech and their First Amendment rights (even if they aren't even American). Do you start to look at actual newspapers as targets when they publish what government officials leak to them? Then you have to convince the country they belong to to hand them over and/or commence legal proceedings in some way.