Wikileaks is a website that publishes sensitive government information and religious documents.  Wikileaks tries to keep the contributors anonymous.  The last time I wrote about Wikileaks was when Bill O’Reilly’s website was hacked.  Within one year of Wikileak’s launch in 2006, the database has grown to over 1.2 million documents.

According to the organization’s About page, Wikileaks’ “primary interest is in exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we also expect to be of assistance to people of all regions who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their governments and corporations.”

Some of the documents that have leaked on Wikileaks includes Guantánamo Bay procedures, the hacking of Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! account, and 600 internal United Nations reports.

According to the Wikileaks Twitter account, the police has raided the home of the Wikileaks.de domain owner over censorship lists.  Check back on the post for an update on what the consequences of the raid will be.

FOX News anchor, Bill O’Reilly is known for several things.  He’s known as “Papa Bear” by Comedy Central news anchors Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.  He’s also known for the viral video of flipping out and yelling “WE’LL DO IT LIVE, F**KING THING SUCKS!!”  Recently he spoke out against those who hacked and published information about Sarah Palin’s e-mail account.

“I’m not going to mention the website that posted this, but it’s one of those despicable, slimy, scummy websites,” stated O’Reilly. “Everybody knows where this stuff is, OK, and they know the people who run the website, so why can’t they go there tonight to the guy’s house who runs it, put him in cuffs and take him down and book him?” 

Here is some advice for Bill O’Reilly. Do not publicly criticize hackers.  Hackers weren’t too happy with O’Reilly’s reaction so they hacked into his website, BillOreilly.com and sent a few screenshots to Wikileaks.org.

Megyn Kelly, an attorney that O’Reilly interviewed believes that websites that published the screenshots will not be charged with crimes because it is protected by the 1st Amendment.  O’Reilly disagrees and argues with her in this clip.  I agree with Kelly because “The Supreme Court has said that when a news organization obtains information that is news-worthy,” even if it’s stolen, news organizations can publish it as long as they didn’t help with the actual hack.  The 1st Amendment Freedom of the Press right protects this.  Below is the video clip.