Lieberman Introduces Anti-WikiLeaks Legislation.

[L0oniX]

<snip>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

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/shield/

Gee ...I guess someone's in the hot seat for the Valerie Plame thing huh.

[Angry Dragon]

1. When they find someone with intelligence in the government

let me know

[social_critic]

2. What happens if we don't know the person is an intelligent source?

That sure sounds broad. We can assume these guys in the US state and imperial (aka defense) departments lack intelligence - they seem to get things wrong all the time (like "Iraq is going to pay us for invading them" and "If we increase the number of soldiers in Afghanistan we're sure to win in a jiffy"). So this means almost anything is a source of intelligence for them.

Say I run into one of them and say "It sure looks like rain", the embassy guy may write a memo "Well known Social Critic reports it may rain", and send it to Washington, and there it is, I became an informant.

Then some poor sucker writes in the paper "Well known gadfly Social seen talking to the embassy guy about the weather" and bingo, they have the CIA kidnap him, put him in chains, fly him to Guantanamo with a courtesy stop in the UK, torture him for 6 weeks, then hand him back to the Syrians to torture him some more. It just doesn't sound like sound legislation.

[GodlessBiker]

3. Mo secrecy, mo secrecy, mo secrecy.