{"id":75897,"date":"2009-12-11T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091210\/1451567301.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-11T07:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T12:12:00","slug":"politicians-investigating-leaks-sites-not-leaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/75897","title":{"rendered":"Politicians Investigating Leaks Sites&#8230; Not Leaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was rumored recently that some politicians were going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/blogs\/2009\/12\/01\/taking_liberties\/entry5854554.shtml\" >investigate <i>Wikileaks<\/i><\/a> for some leaked documents that were posted there.  The details weren&#8217;t clear, and I was hoping something was lost in the translation, and they meant that the politicians would be investigating the <i>leaks<\/i> not the site Wikileaks for posting it.  No such luck apparently.  Three Congressional Reps have apparently asked Homeland Security <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2009\/12\/tsa-leak-2\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20wired27b%20%28Blog%20-%2027B%20Stroke%206%20%28Threat%20Level%29%29\" >what can be done about sites that post leaked documents<\/a>, including not just Wikileaks, but Cryptome as well.  In the letter to Homeland Security, they basically suggest that if needed, they&#8217;ll put forth legislation that would make reposting such content illegal, which could create one hell of a First Amendment legal battle at some point.  Either way, these politicians are focused on the wrong things.  The problems aren&#8217;t these sites, which are just service providers for the information.  The problems are the leaks of info themselves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091210\/1451567301.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091210\/1451567301.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091210\/1451567301&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=c63408afeceabf6e2dbfb88e0a71b9fa&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=c63408afeceabf6e2dbfb88e0a71b9fa&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=2vZAo_f-vSs:nK4IYrEUFhc:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=2vZAo_f-vSs:nK4IYrEUFhc:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=2vZAo_f-vSs:nK4IYrEUFhc:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/2vZAo_f-vSs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was rumored recently that some politicians were going to investigate Wikileaks for some leaked documents that were posted there. The details weren&#8217;t clear, and I was hoping something was lost in the translation, and they meant that the politicians would be investigating the leaks not the site Wikileaks for posting it. No such luck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}