From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Since posting a quarter million diplomatic tables last weekend, WikiLeaks has struggled to stay online.

It's been taken down intermittently by denial of service attacks,

which a hacker called The Jester has taken credit for.

On Thursday, Amazon.com removed the website from its servers,

denying it was pressured by the government to do so,

explaining that WikiLeaks had violated its terms of service.

As of Friday, the website was back up at wikiLeaks.C.H, hosted by an information freedom

group called the Swiss Pirate Party, but if the past week is any indicator, there's

no telling where the website will be by the time you hear this.

Meanwhile, the highlights of the latest document dump orchestrated by

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, which have appeared in Britain's Guardian newspaper,

Francis Le Mans, Germany's de Spiegel, Spain's El Pais, and the New York Times have enraged

such legislators as Joe Lieberman, Lindsay Graham, and Peter King. He's a menace.

He's, in my opinion, he's risked lives.

Well, I agree with the Pentagon's assessment that the people at Wilkie Leaks could have blood on their hands.

I have called on the Attorney General Erykola to immediately begin a prosecution of WikiLeaks for violating the Espionage Act.

On Thursday, Senators John Ensign, Scott Brown, and Joe Lieberman

introduced the so-called Shield Act to expand the World War I-era Espionage Act.

Currently, it protects signal and satellite intelligence and cryptography, the Shield Act would cover human intelligence as well.

Senator Ensign said in a statement, quote,

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