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Showing posts with label Foreign. Show all posts
Biggest Leak In US Military History: WikiLeaks Posts Thousands Of Classified Docs On Afghan War 
Mediaite
Early Sunday, in what is being called "one of the biggest leaks in US military history," the whistleblower site WikiLeaks posted tens of thousands of classified "military field reports" about the Afghan war. 

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White House decries WikiLeaks' release of Afghan war documents 
Los Angeles Times
  
Piecing Together the Reports, and Deciding What to Publish 
New York Times

NYT defends publishing leaked military records 
Upshot

Wikileaks May Have Just Changed the Media, Too 
The Atlantic
Cornwell v. Sachs (II), Civil No. 07-236 (E.D. Va. default judgment Nov. 30, 2007).
Status: $35,780 default judgment for plaintiff

In 2000, best selling author Patricia Cornwell obtained a court order enjoining Leslie R. Sachs from posting her name on his web site (see above). But by 2007, Sachs had created new sites (www.patricia-cornwell-biography.net; www.banned-in-america.net; www.dr-les-sachs.be), which alleged that Cornwell’s books were plagiarized from his work, and that Cornwell was corrupt, involved in government intrigue, and was under investigation by federal authorities. Cornwell sued to enforce the earlier order, and for damages for the statements Sachs had posted on his old and new sites. Sachs – who is reportedly living in Belgium – did not respond to the suit, leading to a default judgment against him. The $35,780 amount was based on Cornwell’s expenses creating a web site to counter Sachs’ claims and redirecting links to Sachs’ site, apparently including links from some Google searches, to Cornwell’s site. Despite the judgment, Sachs’ sites remain available online.

Links and Court Documents:
http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2007/06/07/crime_novelist_tries_to_ward_off_internet_attacker/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/may/24/books.crimebooks
Glock, Inc. v. Pilz, Civil No. 06-0072 (S.D. Ind. dismissed March 29, 2007)
Status: Dismissed

The Smyrna, Ga.-based gun manufacturer Glock, Inc. sued over comments that Austrian Parliament member Peter Pilz posted in German on his Austria-based web site (www.peterpilz.at), alleging that the company allowed its guns to end up in the Turkey black market, a claim that was repeated on the web site and in an article in the Austrian newspaper Der Standard (derstandard.at).

Glock sued in Indiana state court: apparently because the posting mentioned a gun supply company based in Indiana, although that company was not named as a defendant in the suit. At the request of two of the defendants, the case was removed to federal court, which dismissed the case for lack of jurisdiction.

Links and Court Documents:
http://www.citmedialaw.org/glock-v-pilz
BBC coverage of Pilz’s accusations: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/06_06_06_iraqi_guns.pdf (page 18)