Report: American Library Assn. Takes Up Resolutions in Support of WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning

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The resolution reportedly compares Manning's leak to the "courageous action" of Ellsberg, who in 1971 released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret study of US government decision-making about the Vietnam War, to The NY Times and other newspapers.Ellsberg himself is scheduled to give a presentation at the conference on Sunday afternoon.Fox News reported that resolution is based on the ALA's strong support for "the principle of government accountability and the protection of whistleblowers."An ALA blog quotes Exec Dir Keith Michael Fiels as saying that "WikiLeaks raises many policy issues including, but not limited to, access to government information, censorship and the blocking of websites, government secrecy and the over-classification of government information, treatment of whistleblowers,government transparency,and the legalities surrounding classified information."

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