ACLU, Elec. Frontier Foundation Jump into Wikileaks Case

[babylonsister]

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/02/aclu_eff_jump_into_wikileaks_c.php

ACLU, EFF Jump into Wikileaks Case
By Paul Kiel - February 27, 2008, 10:25AM

Wikileaks just got some legal backup.

The ACLU and Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a motion last night to intervene in the case. The two groups are seeking to roll back a federal California judge's sweeping order earlier this month that blocked access to wikileaks.org. The order came as a result of a Swiss bank's complaint that the site was distributing confidential documents that allegedly show shell accounts used to hide assets.

A lawyer for the ACLU and EFF said that shutting down the site was a case of "burning down the house to roast the pig." It's wrong, the groups argue, that the public has lost access to all of the documents that wikileaks has to offer (well, at least through wikileaks.org -- a number of mirror sites have sprung up to counter the order).

The groups are seeking to intervene in the case on behalf of themselves, the Project on Government Oversight, a D.C. watchdog, and Jordan McCorkle, a student at the University of Texas who uses wikileaks on a regular basis.

Update: Public Citizen and the California First Amendment Coalition have also sought to intervene in the case.

Update: A group of journalism organizations has also sought to file an amicus brief on Wikileaks' behalf. Those organizations are: the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Associated Press, the Citizen Media Law Project, E.W. Scripps, Gannett, Hearst, The Los Angeles Times, the National Newspaper Association, the Newspaper Association of America, the Radio-Television News Directors Association, and the Society of Professional Journalists.

[havocmom]

1. With news like that, it might be a good day for an ACLU membership drive!

K & R

[babylonsister]

2. True that; I renew my card every X-mas, a gift to myself from

my husband.

[havocmom]

3. LOL Those husbands.... so good when they shop and never know about it

We ALWAYS get just the right gift from them that way! ;)

[babylonsister]

5. After all these years,

especially after the year I received casserole dishes :eyes:, I gently give suggestions and make lists. ;)

[havocmom]

6. Knew a guy who got his wife a $700 vacuum cleaner for Christmas

And when anyone asked him 'And, what does your wife do?' He would grunt out that 'her job is to clean MY house'.

She got a job and left him. He is still clueless as to why? Thinks it's because there are men out there in the work force

Lists and the comfort that comes with many years is so much better ;)

[Jeffersons Ghost]

4. K&R