21-04-2017, 09:17 AM
From https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nat...bf85d49dda
Quote:Federal prosecutors are weighing whether to bring criminal charges against members of the WikiLeaks organization, taking a second look at a 2010 leak of diplomatic cables and military documents and investigating whether the group bears criminal responsibility for the more recent revelation of sensitive CIA cyber-tools, according to people familiar with the case.
The Justice Department under President Barack Obama decided not to charge WikiLeaks for revealing some of the government's most sensitive secrets concluding that doing so would be akin to prosecuting a news organization for publishing classified information. Justice Department leadership under President Trump, though, has indicated to prosecutors that it is open to taking another look at the case, which the Obama administration did not formally close.
Quote:Trump has had a fluid relationship with WikiLeaks, depending largely on how the group's actions benefited or harmed him. On the campaign trail, when WikiLeaks released Podesta's hacked emails, Trump told a crowd in Pennsylvania, "I love WikiLeaks!" But when it came to the release of the CIA tools, he did not seem so pleased.
The most relevant literature regarding what happened since September 11, 2001 is George Orwell's "1984".