Monday, January 31, 2011

Homework for Monday, Feb. 7th

read story at

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/features/arts/july-dec10/wikileaks2_12-03.html

answer the following questions in sentence form

1.How many documents has WikiLeaks released recently that has world governments and free press advocates debating if the activities are illegal or acts of free speech?
2.Who were these documents written by?
3.What are “cables”?

4.Why is the U.S. State Department embarrassed by the released documents?

5.What did WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange tell Forbes magazine can improve the world and the free market system?

6.What is the Espionage Act?

7.Why would it be difficult to prosecute Julian Assange in U.S. courts?

8.Who has been charged with giving WikiLeaks the classified documents about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?

9.What Scandinavian country is proving a haven for websites like WikiLeaks?

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.