That's a level of praise that relatively few people in the world would find flattering. Here's someone else who also has more national security experience and credibility than the Community-Organizer-in-Chief:
Posted on 11/30/2010 8:59:54 AM PST by Stoutcat
The best I can say about the intelligence breach that is Wikileaks, and the President’s poor performance regarding this third massive classified document dump, is to quote Professor Jacobson at Legal Insurrection, who correctly identified the type of letter that should have been sent to Julian Assange:
Dear Wikileaks,If you publish any more material we will hunt you down no matter the cost, and you either will be killed while resisting arrest or you will spend the rest of your lives in solitary confinement in a Supermax prison, where the highlight of your day will be 1 hour spent in a cage instead of your cell. Don’t look up, that sound of propellers in the air is not a Predator drone.
Sincerely, Harold Koh
Of course, that was not the letter that was sent. Instead, Mr. Koh sent a sternly-worded missive with threats of swift retribution pathetic plea to Assange to return the documents because publishing them would be bad...
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Assange is the wrong target. He wouldn’t have the info without someone leaking the info to him.
This is an act of war.
Don’t send letters. Send B-52’s.
Take out the server farm. Leave a big smoking hole.
I believe we already have the leaker in custody, but we also need to take out other guilty parties.
If we do have the leaker, he should already have been executed.
There are several separate issues here, and I think you’re confusing them.
One is how to deal with the breach in security that these documents represent — Assange and Private Whats-his-name. Even if you find the documents informative, there has been an unacceptable breach that needs to be dealt with swiftly and severely. The private that leaked the information should spend the better part of his life in Leavenworth, and treason charges should be considered. This is not “whistleblowing” ... it is anti-American espionage.
Assange should be arrested on whatever charges we can find ... if Mossad or some off-the-books agent doesn’t get to him first, we can give him his own special corner of Guantanimo and waterboard the hell out of him.
A separate issue is how the Administration has handled the situation. Administration incompetence with regard to national security is not surprising, but is problematic.
A third issue arises with the information itself ... damage control, what we can learn, what our enemies and allies will learn, etc.
There is the side-issue that the information is, at least, honest and informative. It is interesting to see the behind-the-scenes information of espionage, counter-espionage, diplomacy, and honest assessments of international leadership.
Personally, I like this kind of stuff. I always look forward to declassification of information ... but there is a time and a method. These documents should be released on our terms, not at the hands of some anti-American crusader.
The fact that it is interesting does not detract from the severity of the breach, and the damage done to diplomacy, alliances, intelligence operations, military operations, etc. Heads should roll.
SnakeDoc
We do have the leaker: 22-year-old PFC Bradley Manning is in custody, pending charges. Personally, I hope he gets a court martial, is found guilty of treason, and excuted.
Very well said!
They moved the documents to Amazon Servers in the United States. We can shut hundreds of sites for sharing a file or two, but can’t shut them down?
You assume that Obama wants to protect our security. If that were true, he could have shut this down before it ever happened. He knew about this for months; MONTHS. He did nothing.
CONCLUSION: He is okay with our diminished sovereignty. He even desires it. And it has the added benefit of giving him an excuse to destroy Hillary.
Be carefull what you ask for, you just might get it.
You really believe Manning was the sole leak?
Next up is info on banks. I think we have a lot of high level leakers in our own government both military and civilian.
The documents make Hillary look more competent than Obama. He doesn’t have the guts to have diplomats spying on the UN ... she apparently does.
SnakeDoc
Stop right there.
you miss the point: Hillary violated international treaties—in writing! She is toast and Obama now has a way of taking her out. The Clintons have been working on knifing Obama in the back for months—now, Hillary! is politically dead. Obama will force her out as Secretary of State and then she will be finished. Along with her philandering bent-one.
I don’t think I missed the point. She may have been hurt in a left-wing nomination fight ... but, overall, she’s more electable after this, not less.
She’s shown a grittiness and willingness to do what it takes that Obama just doesn’t have. She’s shown strength that he can’t muster. Her national security credentials have been bolstered, while Obama’s have been diminished.
If he’s trying to ruin her, he’s doing a piss poor job. She’s now got more national security credibility than the Commander-in-Chief.
SnakeDoc
The documents make Hillary look more competent than Obama.Yeah, but that's not hard to do! Obama has to be the most incompetent (and pathetically weak) President America has elected since the early 1900s, anyway.
That's a level of praise that relatively few people in the world would find flattering. Here's someone else who also has more national security experience and credibility than the Community-Organizer-in-Chief:
True enough ... but, Hillary wouldn’t have to run against that kid.
SnakeDoc
You may be right. However, she violated international treaties. David Korn is even out with a hit piece on her today. Knives are out. Obama’s lefty radicals against the Clinton Crime syndicate. It’s going to be interesting. I hope she DOES go after Obama in the primaries. I hope they permanently damage each other and we get a real conservative as president. We will just have to see how this civil war in the RAT Party plays out.
You are wrong as rain......Find out who in the State Dept did the leakage then hang him..................it is not right to shoot the messenger but the author is who should be shot for leaking the information........we pay there salary get that thru your head they work for us so why hide hmm is it because they are thoughtless that’s what I think.................
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