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Declare War on Wikileaks
The Washington Times ^ | October 25, 2010 | Editorial

Posted on 10/25/2010 7:44:21 PM PDT by Abakumov

The Wikileaks organization has morphed from a relatively harmless aid to government whistleblowers into a threat to U.S. national security. It should be treated accordingly....

There are a variety of means whereby technicians could render inoperable the sites distributing the classified information. Wikileaks could respond by using alternate sites, but those could be targeted as soon as they came online. Wikileaks has a small staff and limited resources. Relentless attacks on the servers and sites dispensing this classified information would have a debilitating effect on the leakers' morale and help widen the fissures that already have appeared in the group. This battle could offer some practical experience to American cyberwarriors who one day will face even greater threats from state-sponsored Web war.

The fact that anyone in the world can view Pentagon classified documents at will sends a signal of American impotence and inspires future cyberfoes. If Wikileaks wants to play this game, the very least our government can do is suit up and get out on the field.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bhofail; cyberwar; espionage; internet; treason; war; wikileaks
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1 posted on 10/25/2010 7:44:26 PM PDT by Abakumov
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To: Abakumov

Tell it like it is the US governments lies 24/7.


2 posted on 10/25/2010 7:48:40 PM PDT by taxtruth
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To: Abakumov

only one problem....talk about a uphill battle

the CIC plays on Wikileaks side!


3 posted on 10/25/2010 7:49:11 PM PDT by himno hero
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To: Abakumov
Sewage
4 posted on 10/25/2010 7:51:02 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Which are you voting for on November 2nd? Freedom and liberty or FREE ice cream?)
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To: Abakumov

I don’t think the editors of the Times have properly gamed this out.


5 posted on 10/25/2010 7:51:57 PM PDT by cmj328
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To: Abakumov

What’s wrong with an old-fashioned black operation in which Julian Assange finds himself swimming in a tank with a few thousand hungry piranha?


6 posted on 10/25/2010 8:00:44 PM PDT by Spartan79 (Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietam servitutem.)
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To: Abakumov

The homosexual “soldier” who leaked this data MUST be executed. And Dessange needs to spend some time at Club Gitmo.


7 posted on 10/25/2010 8:01:38 PM PDT by montag813 (http://www.facebook.com/StandWithArizona)
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To: Abakumov

Germany loves Assange, since he always comes with the anti-US slant. That’s why the man is free now. Rags like der Spiegel get to churn out the anti-US garbage again. Pity (for them) that the latest round of “revelations”, though, includes discovery of WMDs and brings to light the fact that Iranians were funding the Iraqi insurgency and in some cases fighting US troops directly.


8 posted on 10/25/2010 8:05:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Abakumov

If I were president, I would have already sent cruise missiles into every building where their servers and support staff/administration are located, and targeted the ‘owner’. He needs a .308 upside the head. We also need to root out those within the military chain that are feeding them information, and let them hang on live TV, bankrupt their families, the whole 9 yards.

To bad the “Commander and Chief” of our military doesn’t view them as a national security threat, which they are.


9 posted on 10/25/2010 8:06:23 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: montag813

This is very bad business. We are fighting a war against a ruthless enemy and can’t seem to keep anything secret. This has to stop or its going to get us dead.


10 posted on 10/25/2010 8:07:05 PM PDT by Mad_as_heck (The MSM - America's (domestic) public enemy #1.)
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To: Abakumov

Back in the Founder’s days, treason was punished by standing in front of a firing squad!

Time for the US to “man-up!”


11 posted on 10/25/2010 8:12:34 PM PDT by Noob1999 (Loose lips, sink ships!)
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To: Abakumov

Assange looks like a poofter. Is he?


12 posted on 10/25/2010 8:20:24 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Abakumov

Investigate! Indict! Prosecute! Incarcerate! Off to PRISON WITH YOU, boys—and girls! Whether you be Democrat or Republican, off you go.

Bring back the rule of law and ENFORCE it, damn it!


13 posted on 10/25/2010 8:24:08 PM PDT by brushcop (CW4 Matthew Lourey CW2 Joshua Scott/ Kiowa pilots KIA Iraq '05. Thank you for our son's life.)
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I'm afraid I have to disagree. Unless wikileaks ringleaders can be arrested, taken into custody tomorrow by the FBI and then prosecuted with a very good chance of incarceration, they are just a canary in the coal mine, even if their motivations are quintessentially anti-American. The people who have to be hunted down and marched to the wall are the Americans who were put in positions of trust and betrayed that trust regardless of their reasons for doing so.
14 posted on 10/25/2010 8:28:53 PM PDT by dr_who
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Better for your enemies to be deceived than for you to deceive yourself. Maybe Sun Tzu said that or something, but yippy skip. It’s common sense.


15 posted on 10/25/2010 8:30:58 PM PDT by dr_who
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To: Noob1999
The firing squad is an honorable way to die. They should gag the bastard so no one can hear him scream and torch him.

Too harsh? Then you can take the next four back to back deployments to Iraq. Lemme know when its you and yours on the line.

16 posted on 10/25/2010 8:39:34 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded)
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To: Noob1999

BTW I didn’t mean that directed AT you.


17 posted on 10/25/2010 8:40:40 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded)
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To: Abakumov

The CIA needs to dump about a million phony documents on this clown and let him have at it. All kinds of disinformation that will serve our interests.

And when they get some positive results, some black bag operatives need to throw Assssange in a trunk and find a Chilean mine for him to visit.


18 posted on 10/25/2010 8:47:06 PM PDT by Senator Goldwater
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To: dr_who

“...wikileaks ringleaders can be ...” introduced to Mitch Rapp.


19 posted on 10/25/2010 8:50:34 PM PDT by Rembrandt (.. AND the donkey you rode in on.)
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To: Mad_as_heck

“This is very bad business. We are fighting a war against a ruthless enemy and can’t seem to keep anything secret. This has to stop or its going to get us dead.”

Time to put in a call to Mossad and ask ‘em how they would handle things....


20 posted on 10/25/2010 8:50:41 PM PDT by Grumplestiltskin (I may look new, but it's only deja vu!)
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