The House Judiciary Committee will meet as a full committee tomorrow (Dec. 16) to hold a hearing: Hearing on the Espionage Act and the Legal and Constitutional Issues Raised by WikiLeaks Thursday 12/16/2010 – 9:30 a.m. 2141 Rayburn House Office Building Witness testimony and documents will be posted at http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_101216.html You can watch the hearing…
Category: Govt
Privacy key in repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’
From an editorial in Navy Times about the repeal of DADT: …. There will be challenges. About 24 percent of troops say they’d quit or at least consider quitting the service if repeal happens. Still, with leaders seemingly committed, it’s time to figure out how to make this work with minimal disruption. That means focusing…
Mark your calendars: Hearing on the Espionage Act and the Legal and Constitutional Issues Raised by WikiLeaks
A hearing has been added to the House Judiciary Committee hearing schedule for December 16: Full Committee 9:30 a.m. in 2141 Rayburn House Office Building Hearing on: the Espionage Act and the Legal and Constitutional Issues Raised by WikiLeaks You can watch it at http://judiciary.edgeboss.net/real-live/judiciary/17223/256_judiciary-coj_2141_070212.smi The witness list will be posted on the HJC’s web…
WikiLeaks data dump is not a justification for totalitarian measures (Update 2)
No matter what you think about Julian Assange or WikiLeaks, and no matter whether you think unredacted data dumps are a great idea or a national security risk, can we all agree that our First Amendment rights are in greater jeopardy now than they have been in years? The knee-jerk inflammatory rhetoric of politicians around…