Defense Dept. demands that Wikileaks return files

Found on CNet News on Wednesday, 04 August 2010
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Geoff Morrell, the department's press secretary, said the military "demands that Wikileaks return immediately to the U.S. government all versions of documents obtained directly or indirectly from the Department of Defense databases or records" and permanently delete them.

But the problem with censoring Wikileaks is the difficulty of convincing an Internet service provider in Sweden--or the Swedish government, for that matter--that material that irks the Pentagon is necessarily also illegal under Swedish law.

Some members from congress probably like the idea of invading Sweden to get those files back. The same files which have been made available online and copied hundreds or thousands of times all around the world. The cat is out, there is no "returning" them.