Congressional leaders said earlier Friday that those responsible for endangering national security by leaking classified information to the media should be sent to jail.
The Obama administration is scrambling to get ahead of the diplomatic damage that could be caused by the release of hundreds of thousands of sensitive and classified documents.
They were requested by Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger during a classified briefing by then-CIA director David Petraeus and were intended to be used by members of Congress and administration officials.
At this time her husband told her that he had received a sum of money that he thought was a gift but which had been classifiedby the Inland Revenue as earnings, so that tax had to be paid on it.
The latest court case is the result of a ruling in December 2007 that allowed British censors to fight a decision by the Video Appeals Committee (VAC), which said the game could beclassified and released.
This sort of action, if done by a financier on information from within the institution in which he worked, would likely beclassified as insider trading.
Passage of this bill would not only have ensured future leaks of classified information - it would have enabled them, by creating the presumption that journalists receiving such information cannot be forced to disclose the source's identity.