Posted on 08/01/2010 3:56:58 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said whistleblower website WikiLeaks is morally "guilty" for its decision to release nearly 80,000 secret military documents pertaining to the Afghanistan war.
Speaking on the Sunday news shows, Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, expressed concern about the potential damage the massive leak could do, including putting Afghan informants in harm's way.
"My attitude on this is that there are two areas of culpability. One is legal culpability. And that's up to the Justice Department and others. That's not my arena. But there's also a moral culpability. And that's where I think the verdict is guilty on WikiLeaks," Gates said on ABC's "This Week." "They have put this out without any regard whatsoever for the consequences."
Gates said he was "mortified" and "appalled" by the release. He said the need to protect sources is "sacrosanct" and that WikiLeaks showed "no sense of responsibility."
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Ergo ... 0bama is Morally Guilty ... and legally guilty ...
IMPEACHMENT!
Check and see if there's a reward out yet.
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If we had a real CIC this guy would already be in a prison with some serious water boarding coming up. But we have a wimp in the White House and Gates isn’t much better.
PC has cost us big time. I wonder if they will be so anxious to push the gays in the military thing after this case. Then, again, they haven’t acknowledge that part of the case yet.
If this guy Assange comes out and tells everyone how TERRIBLE he feels about all this, he’ll get a pass?
I love the way the creeps in Washington claim moral rules only when it serves their power. Otherwise, there are no morals; no right and no wrong. Life does not work like that.
Is the leaker black? If so, no problem there.
/johnny
I imagine Holder will get him/her a good “lawyer” who is an expert in “creative” justice.
This "leak" was Obama approved in order to supply an excuse for bombing Pakistan or Iran or somebody, anybody, to get Americans' minds off what Soetoro is doing domestically.
Why are you so ready to kill someone who is exposing the utter sham of the war and what it’s costing us?
I like how nobody here is even discussing the corruption these documents have exposed - mainly that Pakistan is funding the Taliban with US taxpayer money. The one way to ensure the safety of out military is to end this war. And remember: no nation, army, or force has ever won in Afganistan ... ever.
I think I saw Victor Davis Hanson disprove that “no one has won” argument just a few days ago.
Besides, knowing the paranoid nature of the government and its tendency to classify everything as "top secret" whether it really is or not, I'm not expecting too much in the way of genuine security bombshells in the leaked material. It's a bunch of freaking diplomatic cables, and anyone who has ever read those can attest that they are some of the most boring, mundane drivel ever written. You're more likely to find Hillary's "top secret" minibar receipt from the Ritz than a primer on Patraeus' battle strategies.
No, this is not about "National Security." It's about something embarrassing showing up on one of Zero's lousy diplomats.
So in that sense, we should be paying attention to the corruption these leaks expose and I'm a bit unsettled that more freepers have not yet made this realization. Despite all the blustery rhetoric from the Obama-controlled Pentagon, these cables are not about "national security." They're about exposing the ineptitude and corruption of the federal bureaucracy - corruption and ineptitude which may be placed squarely at the feet of the commander in chief.
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