Is an administration with a history of anti-war sentiments going to move in arresting, prosecuting someone who many among Obama's coterie of left-wings feel philosphically akin to? I doubt it.
Will this treasonous turd escape any consequencess for the way he has so egregiously damaged the US?
How much you want to bet that Obambi hisself is behind this?
This person needs to be arrested now, and tried for treason. Imprison him and throw away the key.
I used to have a TS clearance. If I even released one paper, I would have been sent to Leavenworth Prison for life. All this stinks.
what do you expect from radicals who believe the US is evil, the US govt is oppressive, and national secrets are classified only to hide America’s shameful conduct?
This is obamas own belief. This is what he was raised to believe, his entire life. These are the views of the people he chose as asociates his entire life. His “friends” at Columbia and Chicago. The Ayers family. His minister.
His wife.
This is an iceberg but not the only iceberg out there.
Lord help our nation. Things have been done that cannot be undone and the damage to national security is continuing and accelerating. The entire US congress, both parties, the cabinet, the courts, our traditional “allies”- all complicit by action or inaction.
The obamites appointed legions of angry revenge-seeking and/or naive people as bureaucrats throughout our govt, and awakened the fervor of moles who spent the previous 8 years hating and undermining President Bush and all our national agencies.
This is Treason folks. and the punishment for Treason is death.
Wilson, FDR, Kennedy, Reagan or TR would have had this guy hauled off weeks ago as a threat to national security, and any or all of them would have had this guy shot. TR likely would have done it himself.
I’m not accusing anyone of anything, but I will point out that 0bama has a vested interest in turning the focus of his failed efforts in Afghanistan back onto Bush, both for the November elections and to cover a unilateral withdrawal. The left wing of his party is pressing him hard for the latter and he’s feeling the heat. If it isn’t settled by 2012 he’s a goner...unless the “Bush’s fault” mantra is good for just one more use by then.
It’s times like this that I wish the fiction of competent CIA hit squads was real. That wikileaks person really ought to be pushing up daisies.
"Willful retention of classified documents carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Obstruction of justice carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. The charge of making a false statement carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. Each of the charged counts carries a maximum fine of $250,000."
For the military - this would be an Article 92 UCMJ violation. AKA TITLE 10, Subtitle A, PART II, CHAPTER 47, SUBCHAPTER X, Section (or paragraph) 892. If the full Court so decides, the death penalty may be assigned.
Side actions against these press outlets for possession / release of classified materials has yet to be seen.
And this kind of behaviour is not limited to the US.
Whoever did this should swing from a yardarm.
This looks like it came from someone who had access to State and military docs. The person would have to be very high up to do this. I suspect that there are several people involved.
It is also possible that they have been sending like docs to others whom we do not wish to have these docs.
This is disastrous.
Also don't focus on Wikileaks. They were just the useful tool. Focus on who leaked this info.
Bradley Manning had visions of becoming the new darling of the left and living a life basking in the glowing admiration of the America Haters. Unfortunately for him, he is not Daniel Ellsberg, and is not a civilian who has the political connections to fashion a clean exit. He is a soldier who will be court martialed, found guilty, and sent to Leavenworth. It will be years before he sees the outside of a cell.