Ex-State Department spokesman compares WikiLeaks to New York Times

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Story
By David Edwards

The former Obama administration official who criticized the military's treatment of Bradley Manning is now casting doubt on the potential that WikiLeaks will be prosecuted.

Former U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told Salon's Justin Elliot that prosecution would be difficult because "it is hard to distinguish what WikiLeaks did from what the New York Times did."

The comparison may not sit well with Times editor Bill Keller, who has published an unflattering profile of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Leaks and statements from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) have indicated that WikiLeaks may have become the target of an investigation after they began to release secret U.S. State Department cables last year.

Read more at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/04/04/ex-state-department-spokesman-compares-wikileaks-to-new-york-times/

[EFerrari]

1. PJ's revenge on Bill Keller.

lol

[bemildred]

2. One almost feels an urge to apologize to PJ for things one has said in the past.

:hi:

[EFerrari]

3. I actually did.

:)

[jwirr]

4. I haven't seen much form Wikileaks lately, Just anonymous and

60 Minutes picking up the baton. Have they revealed anything since the BOA download?

[Occulus]

5. Not yet, to my knowledge.

Bear in mind that timing is very important for a thing like that, and at the moment the largest part of our attention is quite rightly fixed upon Japan.

[snot]

6. The BoA download -- I was not aware that the big one happened -- where is it?

(There was a little one that was, I think, released by Anonymous.)