Lieberman Introduces Anti-WikiLeaks Legislation
Found on Wired on Thursday, 02 December 2010
Senator Joseph Lieberman and other lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation that would make it a federal crime for anyone to publish the name of a U.S. intelligence source, in a direct swipe at the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks.
Leaking such information in the first place is already a crime, so the measure is aimed squarely at publishers.
But on Thursday a German politician admitted that he'd passed confidential information to U.S. diplomats, after a WikiLeaks cable describing an anonymous, well-placed U.S. informant in Germany set off a mole-hunt within that country's Free Democratic Party.
Censorship. Plain and simple. Lieberman and Co are not working for the citizens who elected them, but against them by trying to force the dirty truth off the Internet.