I read this as Lonsberry asking the rhetorical question, not making a recommendation. Quite frankly, I ask the same question about George Soros every day.
Dennis Miller also asked this rhetorical question on his show yesterday.
By his willful and direct actions he has caused the deaths of a number of people. Not much different than what Charlie Manson did. He should meet an untimely end.
Granted I understand this sentiment and almost agree with it...except for one key thing.
We are being systematically lied to by our government about all of this stuff. We are committing ourselves, brothers, fathers, mothers, etc to the cause and we are being fed a bunch of crap both by the Bush admin and now the Obama admin.
If we were told the truth and allowed to have an honest discussion about these huge issues WIKILEAKS wouldn’t even exist!!!
This is the case where if we shoot the messenger we clearly allow the violations of the public trust being committed by those in charge.
This is exactly what the founding fathers warned us about...
because we don’t have the sorts of presidents we once had and there is no Cold War
Paging Colby and Helms.
The US hasn’t done a treason tril in a while but the military clerk who leaked these documents should be tried and then executed.
As for the blogger - I’m fine with him simply vanishing off the street one fine day.
Calculus.
For every crumb of disinformation there must be information, verifiable and actionable. Sometimes much more than the false leads, enough to bury the few seminal things which will pop up somewhere else and confirm networks, trace information flow, or foil efforts which might have otherwise been successful.
Maybe those are there, maybe not. Some may be truth, some fiction. I do not know, nor am I in any position to.
Intelligence is an onion, though, often layer wrapped upon layer, with deception sandwiched in between.
Fonts of ‘classified’ information can be used as fonts of disinformation, too. With a ‘good enough’ track record, the disinformation will enter the sysetem well accepted.
Besides, I thought we declared a moratorium on ‘wet work’.
Maybe a Letter of Marque or Reprisal?
When I think of all the decades I withheld the very nature of my classified USAF mission (even from my own wife and family) — and then read about this tratorious WIKILEAKS puke — my trigger finger starts to squeeeeeze...