Is the Wikileaks Case Really Like the Pentagon Papers Case? Part Two of a Two-Part Series on a Lawsuit Against a Controversial Site that Hosts Confidential Government and Corporate Documents FindLaw columnist, attorney, and author Julie Hilden continues her two-part series of columns analyzing the pending federal district court case involving the website Wikileaks. Wikileaks aims to become "an uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis." However, a bank is now challenging the site's right to host an employee's posting of confidential internal bank documents. Hilden evaluates the analogy between the First Amendment issues in this case, and those the Supreme Court faced when it allowed the New York Times to publish the "Pentagon Papers," a confidential government history of the Vietnam War.
Wednesday, Mar. 19, 2008