CBS news reports that attorney general Eric Holder is considering taking legal action against Wikileaks, the website that published sensitive classified information from the US State Department on Sunday.

Holder said that the US government believes that crimes have been committed by the website and they are investigating these crimes.  The administration has ordered a government-wide crackdown on how classified information is handled to try to make sure these leaks don’t happen again.

However Wikileaks is already in possession of thousands of documents that they plan to release over the coming months. Press Secretary Gibbs stated that the leak "is a serious violation of the law”, however which laws apply to this case will be difficult to determine, since many laws against espionage date back to WWI, and don’t cover internet leaks, and because the site's founder is an Australian Citizen living abroad. 

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