WASHINGTON: The Army has updated its 17-year-old rulebook on espionage, specifically to require that troops alert authorities if they suspect classified leaks to news media outlets.
The revision comes in the aftermath of the service’s WikiLeaks debacle. An Army intelligence analyst was charged this year with providing a classified video to WikiLeaks, an antiwar organisation that runs what it describes as a whistle-blower website.
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