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The Government's Hypocrisy on Hacked Information

• http://www.opednews.com, By John Kiriakou

 I frankly don't care if I know anybody who had signed up on the adultery website, and I've not looked at any of the several websites that claim to allow people to be able to search the site's members. It's none of my business who is cheating on his or her spouse, it doesn't affect me in any way, and I have more important things to worry about.

One thing does bother me, though. It actually bothers me very much. And that is the government's hypocrisy when it comes to hacked information. Legally, hacked information is stolen property. I was working on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff when Chelsea Manning leaked thousands of classified cables to Wikileaks. Within days, Senate staffers received instructions that we were not to access Wikileaks from a Senate computer. The information had been stolen, our security officers said, so we were to leave it alone. Don't search it, read it, or even look at it.


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