The constitution provides that the right of the people to information on matters of public concern shall be recognized. Access to official records, and to documents, and papers pertaining to official acts, transactions, or decisions, as well as to government research data used as basis for policy development, shall be afforded the citizen, subject to such limitations as maybe provided by law.
Clearly, disseminating factual information for the nation to digest is not a crime but in fact a requirement under the ultimate law of the land. The wikileaks may thus be an allowable means subject to certain limitation as provided by the law. The problem however is that the limitation is not clear this is one aspect where jurisprudence and law has to evolve. The freedom of Information Bill is presently being debated which is hoped as a solution.
In the case of Asange, qouting time dated December 9, 2010 wherein the weakness of the case against Asange himself was evident. There is no law in th US that punishes the act.
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