disclosure of classified information by wikileaks: a new conflict between the right of access to information and national security
Abstract
disclosure of classified public interest information has become one of the major legal challenges in recent years. in the past decades the conflict between the right of people to receive information and principle of sovereignty within the framework of traditional media (direct broadcast satellite) resolved in favor of principle of free flow of information and the said conflict was replaced by the exception of national security. but nowadays, wikileaks by access to classified information and disseminating them, has shown new conflict between the right of access to information held by the government and national security. so in this research, besides of analyzing this conflict, we are going to study legal ways of coexistence between disclosure of classified information and national security within of the right of access to document and information held by the government.