With all of the media attention on Julian Assange and Wikileaks that has been going on for the last several months, here is an informative Congressional Research Service report entitled Crimimal Prohibitions on the Publication of Classified Defense Information. It sheds some interesting light on the potential legal avenues and pitfalls that the U.S. Government may experience should they try to criminally prosecute Assange and/or his media collaborators over previous or future releases of Defense and State Department classified documents.
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Criminal_Prohibitions_on_the_Publication_of_Classified_Defense_Information.pdf (266 KB) 
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