At least this would be the headline if the USAF get their way ... while I would not necessarily have a problem with Papa Bear getting lynched, the problem is that the dragnet that would get him would get pretty much every other journalist in America and thousands and thousands of US citizens not from the Fourth Estate!
On Feb 3rd Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base sent out a new guidance basically stating that anyone who accesses material on Wikileaks deemed to be classified could be charged under the Espionage Act … oh, and by the way it’s all still classified (well, the war diaries and the cables anyway) … and don’t even think of downloading the insurance file [Ferretous says: note to self – burn it to disk and delete from hard-drive asap – just kidding, I never downloaded it, what file? Nothing to see here, moving along …]
Funnily enough they napalmed themselves in the foot with this Disinfo attempt … defendants in the Wikileaks leaks cases could end up using this guidance as a loophole to have the charges thrown out of court, by rendering the Act invalid. If a law automatically renders a considerable section of society criminal it is generally considered unconstitutionally broad and would be repealed … (I have no reference for this, it may not be true, taken from a FAS webpage)
[SockRatEz says: huh, why doesn’t that apply to pot?][Greg the Bunny says: Clinton says it's because there is too much money in keeping drugs illegal][Ferretous says: Bunny, that's disinfo, you've been reading too many Alex Jones headlines and not just clicking straight on the source link ... if you read what she said for yourself you'll see that while what she said was completely illogical it is typical of the Jones network of sites to sex up their headlines to snare you ... total disinfo tactic ... never do that ... #um,startingNOW]
So by Feb 7th the USAF withdrew the guidance although they do still apply strict rules on their own staff.
Looks like we all just dodged a Disinfo AIM-9 Sidewinder …
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