I don't see how Wikileaks can legally be prosecuted without creating a constitutional disaster.

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The administration must be aware of this. If this case ever hits a court, it will blow up in everyones face. If they somehow manage to ram this through by twisting the law into a pretzel, and create such a precedent, it will be the end of a free press as we know it. The implications of such a trial would be broad, such that an extremely large number of people currently working for the media could also face trial.

I wonder whether the adminstration has thought this through, or whether they simply want to abandon the rule of law altogether.

Overall, I think the situation is being handled poorly. The instruction for government employees not to read any leaked material is a strategic disaster as well. IMO a better response would be to instruct everyone to inform themselves.

What Wikileaks is doing is working. The whole idea of "isolating the individual parts of an unjust system from one another and provoking it to shut down its brain" is exactly what we are seeing.