Yes, everyone working with this sort of information has to sign the Official Secrets act. Which is pretty much exactly what I said (regular army are not mentioned in the exceptions clauses in the act, so I assume are covered).M.O.A.B wrote:
I thought stuff like the army was excluded from the PID and that everyone who takes up a career where they work with potentially sensistive material was bound by the OS act?Bertster7 wrote:
Over here they'd be protected by the Public Interest Disclosure act.rdx-fx wrote:
Implication in a few thousand counts of sedition or treason (or whatever term they'd pick). I'm thinking that's enough to get a quiet warrant for the FBI, CIA, NSA to crawl all over every aspect of their operation, overtly or covertly.
Employees of GCHQ, MI5 or MI6 are not covered by this for national security reasons. Anyone else can release any of this sort of information and be protected by this act.
It's freedom of speech.
I suspect Wikileaks is based somewhere which has laws to protect them. I think it is unlikely Wikileaks will have any significant problems due to this.
Wikileaks are not an employee of any sort of national security organisation and so would be protected by it.