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The "government database" still seems like an open issue, i.e. could foreign agencies get access to this info legally or openly (via Internet, request, inter-agency exchange) or only some like media (FOIA, contacts). If latter, then the Italians would need someone like LAT to do the deed for them, while technically not being under IIPA. Isn't that somewhat akin in reverse to what Agee did, publishing his "book" in England, because he couldn't do it here?

I was thinking it might be akin to it from the perspective of the European courts, if LAT was being leaked information from European sources who had access to classified or otherwise restricted information but did not want to risk potential legal repercussions from publishing it in their own country. But I don't know what laws operate on the Continent in that respect. Of course Britain has the Official Secrets Act which would cover their equivalent of classified information, but I don't know what rules apply in Italy or Germany. I don't know if there was any information involved that would be classified from an Italian/German perspective, but I would not be surprised if some laws regarding the privacy of court/parliamentary proceedings were violated. Again just a guess--hard to say much more without knowing how the information was obtained and what laws apply in Europe.

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