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Panel Title: Keeping the boat afloat: News Leaks in a Digital
World
Panel Description: The panel would bridge the Law & Policy / News /
Interactive Media & Emerging Technologies divisions. It would
explore topics such as Wikileaks, the modern digital news leak,
anonymous sources, shield laws in a digital world, impact on governance
and public policy, Bush & Obama crackdown and punishing of leakers,
the role of news leaks through time, etc. There are some recent, notable
cases of digital news leaks. Thomas Drake (former senior National
Security Agency official)- Stemming from a Bush leak investigation into
the warrantless wiretapping program, recently indicted for allegedly
retaining classified information that led to a series of newspaper
articles about NSA's billion-dollar mismanagement of a program to
conduct secret surveillance with maximum privacy intrusion. James Risen
(New York Times reporter)- Justice Department reissued Bush-era grand
jury subpoena for his sources for a chapter of his 2006 book, State of
War, which focuses on a CIA-led ruse to disrupt Iranian nuclear weapons
research. Shamai Leibowitz (FBI linguist)- sentenced to 20 months in
prison for giving classified information to a blogger. Bradley Manning
(Army Intelligence Analyst)- arrested for allegedly disclosing to
Wikileaks classified video footage [titled "Collateral Murder"] of an
apache helicopter attack that killed unarmed Iraqi civilians, including
two Reuters reporters, and injured two children.
Contact Phone: 309 585 2220 (email preferred)
Contact Name: Maria Moore
Email: mmoore2@ilstu.edu
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