UNPLUG WIKILEAKS? ENACT A FEDERAL SHIELD LAW INSTEAD
BY PETER SCHEER—-The Obama administration has made no secret of its desire to unplug wikileaks, the whistleblower website infamous for data dumps of classified records. Of the few options available to the government, the best is one that probably hasn’t been considered in this context: enacting a federal Shield Law. How would a Shield Law–a version of which has passed the House and awaits a vote by the full Senate—put Wikileaks out of business? The