In response to the publication of confidential documents by Wikileaks three U.S. senators have submitted a bill by which the identity of informants will be better protected. The "Shield Act (Securing Human Intelligence and enforcing lawful dissemination) said law should complement existing arrangements, the publication or disclosure of information classified as secret or cryptographic means is a criminal offense. The proposed addition to the identities of informers under this protective umbrella come.

The proposal of the independent Sentors Joe Lieberman (Conn.) and his Republican colleague John Ensign (Nevada) and Scott Brown (Massachusetts) to the publication of documents, the high security classification do not have - like many of the Wikileaks published messages from U.S. Diplomats - criminalization. The senators argue with interests of national security and the threat of informants."With the publication of the names of our human sources have Julian Assange and his cronies our enemies a target list provided," said Ensign. "To say this clearly: Assange Wikileaks is not a whistleblower site, and is not a journalist." Lieberman added that the bill will help those to account, "the protection of national security interests at risk for significant information."

After it became known that the Wikileaks documents at the Amazon Web Services are hosted, were employees of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security, whose chairman is Lieberman, Amazon demanded an explanation from. The company then had the server under reference a breach of the terms, conditions turned off on. Wikileaks also used by the DNS service has ceased its services to the whistleblower.