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WASHINGTON: US lawmakers have introduced legislations in the
Congress which is aimed at stopping the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks
by making it illegal to publish the names of military or intelligence
community informants. <br> <br> The House
version of the bill was introduced in the House of Representatives
yesterday by Congressman, the Senate version was introduced last week by
Senators John Ensign , Joe Lieberman
and Scott Brown. <br> <br> The move comes in response to WikiLeaks' publication of thousands of classified diplomatic cables. <br> <br>
The Securing Human Intelligence and Enforcing Lawful
Dissemination Act (SHIELD) would give the government the flexibility to
pursue Assange for allegedly outing confidential US informants.
<br> <br> Ranking Member and Chairman-elect of the
House Committee on Homeland Security, King said the legislation will
give the Department of Justice additional tools to prosecute future
disclosures by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange or others. <br> <br>
King had previously called on Attorney General Eric Holder to
prosecute Julian Assange - the WikiLeaks founder and editor in chief --
under the Espionage Act. <br> <br> This legislation expands the Attorney General's authority to prosecute leaks of intelligence, he said. <br> <br>
"Julian Assange and his associates who operate and support
WikiLeaks have not only damaged US national security with their releases
of classified documents, but also placed at risk countless lives,
including those of our Nation's intelligence sources around the world,"
King said. <br> <br> "WikiLeaks presents a
clear and present danger to the national security of the United States,
and Julian Assange, an enemy of the US, should be prosecuted under the
Espionage Act. This legislation will give the Attorney General
additional tools to do just that," he said. <br> <br>
"Our sources are bravely risking their lives when they stand up
against the tyranny of al Qaeda, the Taliban and murderous regimes, and
I simply will not stand idly by as they become death targets because of
Julian Assange," Senator Ensign said in a statement last week.
<br> <br> "Let me be very clear, WikiLeaks is not a whistleblower website and Assange is not a journalist," he argued. <br> <br> Senator Brown said the law would prevent anyone from compromising national security in a similar manner. <br> <br>
"Our foreign representatives, allies and intelligence sources
must have the clear assurance that their lives will not be endangered by
those with opposing agendas, whether they are Americans or not, and our
government must make it clear that revealing the identities of these
individuals will not be tolerated," Lieberman said. </div></div></span></div><br><br><p><font color="#8000ff"><font size="2"><span class="body"><font face="Verdana"><strong>The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.</strong></font></span> <br></font><br><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="border-bottom: medium none; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;" id="lw_1254934561_3" class="yshortcuts">Leon Trotsky</span></font></strong></font></p></td></tr></table><br>