Well before WikiLeaks began releasing 250,000 confidential diplomatic cables this week, the whistle-blowing Web site caught our attention by unleashing a more modest cache of classified military records related to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars over the summer.
First Amendment lawyers we spoke with at the time were divided on whether WikiLeaks, which a federal judge temporarily shut down in 2008, would be hauled into court over those releases. As it turned out, those behind the site did not face prosecution in connection with the war-related leaks.
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