So does the Ministry of Defence worry about the Twitter effect on state secrets?
Or will it be dropped, with potentially far-reaching implications for how others treat state secrets?
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Map-reading is a skill few have mastered (detailed topographical maps are classified as state secrets).
Ellsberg notes that there have been five prosecutions on release of state secrets during the Obama Administration.
For example, those deemed to hold state secrets are enjoined from leaving the country for five years.
We will apply a stricter legal test to material that can be protected under the state secrets privilege.
The Bush administration has refused to share records of the program with federal courts, invoking a "state secrets" privilege.
More recently, Valentin Danilov, a researcher in Krasnoyarsk, was sentenced to 13 years for giving state secrets to China.
Mr. BANKSTON: And that we can prove our case and it shouldn't be dismissed without getting into state secrets.
Ben Wizner says the administration is asking the judge to block the case because it might reveal state secrets.
Now, along these same lines, my administration is also confronting challenges to what is known as the "state secrets" privilege.
But the government intends to assert the state secrets privilege in this case too and that could kill the suit.
However, instead of receiving justice, activists who report abusive activities are often charged with illegally providing state secrets to foreign entities.
Ten alleged Russian spies were arrested in the US at the end of June for allegedly trying to collect state secrets.
China has an expansive definition of state secrets, and audit working papers, particularly relating to state-controlled enterprises, may be considered state secrets.
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"Man on a Ledge" takes its sweet time explaining Nick's problem, and his intended solution, doling out relevant details like state secrets.
We are declassifying more information and embracing more oversight of our actions, and we're narrowing our use of the state secrets privilege.
It later emerged Markovic was also being investigated for revealing state secrets.
Late Friday, Attorney General Eric Holder said he had assigned two U.S. attorneys to lead investigations into the possible leaking of state secrets.
And she rejected the government's argument that the case could not proceed because it would reveal state secrets, saying that claim was disingenuous.
While Saudi Arabia guards its oil production and reserves as state secrets, the nation has recently announced three long-awaited oilfields have begun production.
The decision to charge Mr Pasquill led to accusations authorities acted because they were more worried about embarrassing revelations than protecting state secrets.
Mr Mahmoudi's lawyers have expressed fears for his life, saying he now has sole knowledge of many of the state secrets from Gaddafi's time in power.
The government wants the judge to dismiss the ACLU lawsuit and cites what's known as the state secrets privilege, and there's plenty of precedent.
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Zittrain says Ellsberg said he is against a state secrets act, but does not say that there is no information that should be secret.
The House of Lords has rejected former MI5 agent David Shayler's bid to use a "public interest" defence in his upcoming "state secrets" trial.
He is still in custody, as is Huang Qi, who was charged last year with possessing state secrets after gathering information on collapsed schools.
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The government claimed the state secrets privilege, saying that even to argue that issue would bring up state secrets, because he was a covert operative.
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