Flutterby™! : Wikileaks & Security

Of WikiLeaks, Security Clearances, and How Both Could Hamper Your Career.

My concern was a possible broader effect on my future employment. If after leaving the Army I were to become a journalist, for example, and a source provided different information to me, to which I had never had access from classified sources, but which the source claimed was classified, would the nondisclosure agreement prohibit me from publishing that information like any other journalist? The Army lawyer smiled and actually asked, "You mean like the Pentagon Papers?" He assured me that the nondisclosure agreement should be read to apply only to the classified information I would be given access to as a result of signing the agreement. "After all," he said, "if you didn't receive it from official sources, how would you even know it was authentic?" I was satisfied and signed.

What seems to me especially interesting about this is that in denying access to the Wikileaks documents to lawyers for Guantánamo detainees, those representatives of the government appear to be confirming the validity of the Wikileaks documents. So...