Lawmakers Want to Bar Sites From Posting Sensitive Docs
Found on Wired on Thursday, 10 December 2009
The congressmen are outraged that sites like Cryptome and Wikileaks republished the manual after it was posted online by a government contractor working for the Transportation Security Administration.
The 93-page manual provided details about which passengers are more likely to be targeted for secondary screening at airports, who is exempt from screening, TSA procedures for screening foreign dignitaries and CIA-escorted passengers, and extensive instructions for calibrating metal detectors and screening for traces of explosive materials.
It's been leaked and is out now, nothing will change that. Even with whatever laws in place, leaks cannot be stopped since sites like Wikileak are not only designed to protect the identity of the whistleblower, but they also work world-wide. Applying US law just won't work; and that is a good thing.