Speaking to a crowd of high school and college students at the University of Denver, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declined to answer a question about free speech and how it can be reconciled with government secrecy, citing the WikiLeaks leak of documents related to the Afghan War.
“That question is very likely to come before me,” Sotomayor insisted, adding that legislation is “already being discussed in Congress and so some of it is going to come up before the court.”
But Sotomayor did say that free speech is “a constant struggle in this society, between our security needs and our First Amendment rights, and one that has existed throughout our history.”
The Obama Administration has condemned the release of the classified war documents as a grave threat to national security, despite downplaying their content. Pentagon officials have demanded that WikiLeaks unrelease the documents and has threatened to take unspecified action against them.
Though the Supreme Court already ruled on this issue in 1971, officials have hoped to find a loophole by claiming that WikiLeaks isn’t a “media outlet” and that it therefore does not have freedom of the press. At the same time the group isn’t based in the US so the ability of the US to act against them seems very much in doubt.
free speech is “a constant struggle in this society, between our security needs and our First Amendment rights, and one that has existed throughout our history.”
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Mr.Adolf, Uncle Joe, Generalissimo Franco, Pinochet and many other tyrants and despots faced similar struggles.
"does not have freedom of the press" but excuse me — press is ink and paper,therefore TV/radio has no freedoms to spue lies. If we are going after Wakie Wakie leaks then Rupert Murdoc needs jail time
Great! Now free speech is a struggle? And here we thought it was the bedrock of the United States Constitution.
Constitution is a burden on the Executive, previous and present Administration by their ACTIONS have declared it quaint and obsolete, just like Geneva Convention.
maybe the motus operendi WAR shoulda woulda coulda come before the decorum and charade of the "court",now that sounds like HARD werk, judge that academic career klOOwnz
WikiLeaks need to explore 911 which has never been investigated and half the World believes Israel and the US Government accomplished.
I've seen this meme over on the Facebook page, and I have to call BS on it. The job of WikiLeaks is to LEAK information otherwise passed to it. In all of the 9/11 Truth films and studies, is there reference to any actual government documents, other than Operation Northwoods? Not that I've seen. Now, when something like that is found, it needs to go WikiLeaks post haste. Until then, there's nothing they will do.
It's unclear to me what juristiction the USG would have over Wikileaks. They're probably hard at work trying to figure out a way to declare WL a terrorist organization. The drones will take care fo the rest…
There are also laws to protect whistleblowers that seem to be "out of style."
Proof once again that the courts are not there to protect YOU but THEM from you.
what does this have to do with the cole bomber, besides I thought they all went down with the ship