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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (132009)5/7/2004 10:17:01 AM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Now come on Jttmab... You should know by now that you'd better have your ducks in a row before you decide to take me on in a public debate like this...;0)

Hardly. You either didn't read what I said, or you're ignoring what I said.

At the time the pictures were taken, they were not classified. They were not under any control. By law, they are unclassifed. If a copy [or copies] under control by the government become classified, only those copies and their subsequent dissemination can be classified.

There is no legal basis for other copies, not under control to be declared classified. The government will likely attempt to obtain those copies and at that time can classify them. But until then there is no legal basis for claiming that the dissemination of those uncontrolled items is in violation of any law.

If the photos given to CBS, the New Yorker or the Washington Post were marked classified that would be a violation of law. If the photos that were given to those organization were directly derived from the actual copies that were held by the government that would be a violation of the law. If they came from other copies that were never under classified control of the government, there is no basis for any legal prosecution.

You don't understand classification or the law governing it.

jttmab
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