WikiWeasels

The Press: A rat-fight between WikiLeaks operatives has exposed and threatened thousands of confidential U.S. diplomatic sources. Aside from the new blood on WikiLeaks' hands, are its media enablers proud of themselves?

The internal disintegration of WikiLeaks, an Internet ring that traffics in stolen documents, was to be expected. Pirates slaughter each other over booty, and WikiLeaks is all about piracy.

WikiLeaks ringleader Julian Assange fell out out with his now-ex-spokesman, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who then made off with 134,000 stolen secret State Department cables illegally obtained by WikiLeaks.

Attempting to make some sort of statement about Assange not being security-minded enough, Domscheit-Berg then revealed a password with names of thousands of people who've spoken to U.S. embassy personnel around the world, many of whom the State Department said were to be "strictly" protected.

They're now in danger, thanks to WikiLeaks. So much for Assange's self-serving assurance that sources would not be revealed.

How did this happen? The short answer is media enablers. Der Speigel, the Guardian, El Pais of Spain and the New York Times all collaborated to have access to WikiLeaks' stolen cables, sometimes helping with "editing." Not all news agencies agreed to be such shills for WikiLeaks. But the Times did.

WikiWeasels: Great name for these leftist “informers”.

WHat to do about them? First of all, publish their names, addresses, phone numbers, equivalent of Social Security Numbers, license plate numbers, photos and any other information about them as would appear on an enlarged “WANTED” poster.

Ask the Brits if any of these leaked cables involved them and were classified documents under their system. If so, prosecute the leakers under the powerful Official Secrets Act, an act for which we have no equivalent.

For the US, prosecute the Wikileakers for any and all violations of U.S. document classifications laws, up to and including the Espionage Act of 1916/17.

Since these documents were stolen and leaked during a time of war (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya), there should be no objection by DOJ to doing this. Oh, I forgot, Eric Holder is the Attorney General, and the only enemy America has is its own white people (Tea Partiers of all races included among the “white devils”).

Time for the Repubicans and the few loyal Americans left in the House Democrats, to crack down on the Wikileaks espionage ring by holding extensive hearings into the whole affair, issuing subpoenas to Leakers (and requesting search warrants for congressional investigators if necessary).

Again, publishing information about all identified leakers, ala the SDS organizational chart and police arrest mugshots/data for SDS rioters/criminals that the Sen. Permanent Investigations Subcommittee did in 1969, would make them marked individuals. Let them run and hide like rats. We have the “long arm” of the law and once a new adminstration takes over in Jan. 2013, “It’s Showtime, folks”.

If the Wikileaders want to play hardball, that’s fine. We’ll show up with a bigger and harder bat, and knock the ball (i.e. their heads) out of the park.

Time to win one for the Gipper (i.e. America)!

Thanks Kaslin.

The internal disintegration of WikiLeaks, an Internet ring that traffics in stolen documents, was to be expected. Pirates slaughter each other over booty, and WikiLeaks is all about piracy... 134,000 stolen secret State Department cables illegally obtained by WikiLeaks... a password with names of thousands of people who've spoken to U.S. embassy personnel around the world, many of whom the State Department said were to be "strictly" protected... now in danger... Der Speigel, the Guardian, El Pais of Spain and the New York Times all collaborated to have access to WikiLeaks' stolen cables, sometimes helping with "editing." Not all news agencies agreed to be such shills for WikiLeaks. But the Times did.

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