Rarely does a single news story raise as many compelling legal quandaries as does the recent disclosures of confidential government information by WikiLeaks.
Besides raising numerous questions with no clear answers — such as whether WikiLeaks even falls under U.S. jurisdiction, or whether or not it deserves First Amendment Protection — the story explodes the fault line of a historic tension in American law: the balance between government secrecy in the name of national security and the public’s right to transparent government.
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