WikiLeaks: Penatagon Papers Part Deux?
WEBSITE SHUT DOWN OVER MILITARY LEAK
FITSNews – February 20, 2008 – The Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog has an interesting story today about a California judge shutting down the website WikiLeaks.org, which recently published what it alleges are the rules of engagement for American troops in Iraq. Needless to say, our attorneys get Google alerts whenever a story is published about a website being shut down, and we pay them handsomely for their analysis seeing as FITSNews is frequently the target of such assaults (editor’s note: we’re 11-0 on shutdown attempts, btw, which we’d like to point out is a lot better than Carolina’s sh*tty football record).
Of course our attorneys also get Google alerts for “midget porn,” which they accidentally forward us from time to time, but that’s another story … Anyway, from the WSJ Law Blog:
In a statement on its site, Wikileaks compared the injunction to ones eventually overturned by the Supreme Court in the Pentagon Papers case. There, the government tried to enjoin publication by The Times and The Washington Post of a secret history of the Vietnam War.
David Ardia, the director of the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard Law School, told the NYT that the injunction is clearly unconstitutional, and that “There is no justification under the First Amendment for shutting down an entire Web site.â€
Hmmm. Maybe that’s why the current legal scoreboard reads FITSNews 11, Haters 0. Of course as much as we love to expose people – especially government people – publishing stuff that could potentially put American lives in danger isn’t cool, even if the First Amendment affords us the right to do so. We’re fine putting Sic Willie’s life in danger, of course, but then again he’s an armed-to-the-teeth killing machine. Not to mention a sexy beast with legendary emotional availability. Hot and bothered? Check and check, baby.
Comments
By Rob W. on February 20th, 2008 at 11:57 am
The website was “shut down” because of leaked information from a Cayman Islands Bank (maybe Huckabee visited?), not because of the rules of engagement for our troops. The only thing that really happened is that you can’t get to wikileaks by typing in “wikileaks.org”, but instead have to do a google search for it and click through the wikipedia page. Here’s the address, if your spam filter will allow it: http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks
By Rob W. on February 20th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Wikileaks was “shut down” because of leaked banking documents from the Cayman Islands (perhaps Huckabee is involved?), not because of the rules of engagement. The only thing the “shut down” does is prevent you from getting to wikileaks by typing in wilikeaks.org. You can still easily get to the site by googling “Wikileaks” and then clicking through the Wikipedia page (first hit on google)- I posted the link on another comment, but I think the spam blocker got it. Will, could you delete the duplicate if I have one?