HitsRus;591049 wrote:Assange is arrested in London on a Swedish warrant.

QuakerOats;591217 wrote:http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/dec/05/obama-us-security-danger-threats

The more appropriate response is to prosecute everyone associated with these leaks to the fullest extent of US law, which the justice department at least appears to be considering. Next, we must stop oscillating between excessive stove-piping of information, as before 9/11, and excessive access, as demonstrated by WikiLeaks. There is no one final answer, but the balance must be under constant analysis. Finally, the Pentagon's cyber-warriors need target practice in this new form of combat, and they could long ago have practised by obliterating WikiLeaks' electrons. Had we acted after the first release in July, there might not have been subsequent leaks, and lives and critical interests would have been protected.

But that was not to be under Obama. His secretary of state does not comprehend that America is the subject of the attack, his department of defence is not interested in defending us, and the president himself seems utterly indifferent to the whole affair.

All of this underscores the real problem. It is not WikiLeaks that ultimately imperils our national security, but the failing Obama administration, which ignores the nature and extent of threats we face, and which is too often unwilling to act to thwart them. While our economic difficulties have dominated the national debate for two years, national security will inevitably again come to the fore, as Americans see the full extent of the devastation left by Obama's policies. That shift cannot come too soon.

jhay78;591222 wrote:I agreed with what Bolton said here:

the_system;591553 wrote:If it doesn't scare the shit out of you that our laws and freedoms are being re-written as we speak, it should.

the_system;591553 wrote:You agree we should "prosecute everyone associated with these leaks to the fullest extent of US law"? I agree with one if he is guilty, and that is Bradley Manning who is already in custody. The others are not Americans and do not have to follow a law that doesn't apply to them. If it doesn't scare the shit out of you that our laws and freedoms are being re-written as we speak, it should.

I Wear Pants;593093 wrote:I'm trying to say that I thought the picture was funny.

BGFalcons82;593169 wrote:Oh...OK. I thought maybe you were saying Assange was a patriot forging ahead because he has access to the "truth". You know he was arrested for rape, not something related to wikileaks, right?

tk421;593170 wrote:ha ha, rape? You're kidding right? He was arrested for "sex by surprise". If that's not the lamest excuse to put someone the U.S. doesn't like behind bars, I don't know what is.

BGFalcons82;593204 wrote:I'm not laughing. Here's the latest story - http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/41990.html Yep...rape is one of the charges. I'm not passing judgment on him, but that's what he is accused of, hence my post. You OK with him blurting out names of agents, secret documents, and top secret info? Is he just a maligned journalist to you?

tk421;593219 wrote:He didn't leak the info, someone on the inside gave it to him.

BGFalcons82;593295 wrote:I'm really confused now. Isn't he the guy behind wikileaks? Why does everyone want his head if he's not the guy that published the info?

I Wear Pants;593497 wrote: And all he does is publish things that people send them. It's not like he hacked into the government wires or anything.

Glory Days;593618 wrote:which still makes him an accomplice to the crime. its like saying he didnt murder the guy, he just chopped him up and pieces and disposed the body.

i say let him release whatever he has hiding, like Ptown said, nothing he has released lately has been damaging to national security.

queencitybuckeye;593636 wrote:It would be a damn shame if he were killed in prison. I wonder how much it would cost, say a government, to make that happen?