Posted on 12/16/2010 5:45:00 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Good post Captain!
Nonsense. If he was “spying” (these AREN’T top secret documents btw) for Soros, he would have not releaesed the damning informtion on the government cover-up in climategate. Our political masters, including Sarah Obama and Barak Palin, are sincere in their mutual hatred of Wikileaks for the unforgivable crime of ripping the facade off our corrupt system.
Ok, but you will also have to hang every reporter who publishes or broadcasts any government leaks.
Very much like they do in Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Red China.
He is an opportunist, he releases what he gets, but he is no journalist. He is a hacker. However, considering that some of the documents have been redacted after the fact shows that Assange also just isn’t about releasing information- he is selective in what he releases and what he protects.
I bet you would have cheered the Germans who encouraged Quisling to make sure that Norway had no secrets too wouldn’t you?
In the old days, we would have just put someone like Assange against a wall after the first time he cracked into the NSA.
Manning's own words would probably make you doubt it. Pretty interesting reading actually.
‘I Can’t Believe What I’m Confessing to You’: The Wikileaks Chats
The worst he’s gonna get from the U.S. will be a $5 mill book contract. The best could go into the teens!
The best we can hope for is that he is made Persona non grata in the US and a hundred other nations.
I'm sure there are good reasons to watch FOXNEWS, but Schlepper, BOR and Whoraldo ain't three of them.
The only question to be asked is: which country is going to get him first? The Israelis are not above snatching people off the streets of London, they’ve done it to renegade nuclear scientists before. Vegas isn’t taking odds on whether Julian is going to live to see 2012.
It doesn’t matter, he’ll be just as dead. He’s pissed off enough countries that somebody is going to nail him.
More interesting reading. Thanks for the information.
BTW. Two other things pop up. One is our secrets aren’t all that safe and two, how did he coerce the service guy to give up the info?
He'll be on the talk show circuit within 2 months...
“If someone here was passed secrets from France would France then charge you?”
Yes. Especially if you made them public.
Why should the responsibility stop with the thief and not also the fence?
In most US spy cases the recipient has claimed diplo immunity or never was found.
Well... this’ll make him a far easier target to get to. Hopefully somebody will.
Sorry... but I think people should not be able to freely conspire to divulge classified information— at any level of classification. Even these state dept. cables... while the subject matter has so far been fairly pedestrian, our diplomatic corps (like them or not) need to be able to conduct frank, honest and confidential communications with their various opposite numbers around the world. Now— they can’t do that. That’s a non-trivial problem.
He's notable now only because he's one of the first. Soon there will be many more like him and what he's doing will become a given.
I agree that he is doing a service. I was not aware that Saudi Arabia was funding al queda with impunity after they murdered 3000 Americans on 911. I was not aware that Russia was funding the terrorists in Venezuela. This guy is a hero.
Cue the ACLU.
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