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WikiLeaks' Assange Tells FNC Docs Offered to Unresponsive White House Weeks Before Release (Video)
Newsbusters ^ | July 29, 2010 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 07/28/2010 10:27:21 PM PDT by Rufus2007

Missed? Perhaps, but this story of complacency by President Barack Obama's administration has certainly been under-reported thus far.

On Fox News Channel's July 28 broadcast of "Studio B," the network's judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano discovered a potential lapse in responsibility by the Obama White House. For the broadcast of his July 31 Fox Business Network show "FreedomWatch," Napolitano interviewed Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.org, the so-called "whistleblower site" which released tens of thousands of classified files about the Afghanistan war. During the interview, Napolitano reported Assange revealed he offered the Obama White House the documents, but they were unresponsive.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; bho44; foxnews; obama; treason; wikileaks; wot
If true, this is a epic failure by the Obama White House.
1 posted on 07/28/2010 10:27:32 PM PDT by Rufus2007
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If true, this is a epic failure by the Obama White House.


Add it to all the other “epic failures” of these evil bastards.


2 posted on 07/28/2010 10:31:17 PM PDT by unkus
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To: y'all

Vacationer-in-Chief.

Just too busy saving.....

Good grief.

Oh, and he will not rest until...!

Bonus - /s


3 posted on 07/28/2010 10:32:43 PM PDT by Cyber Ninja (Live and let live; is not working...)
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In the United States I was born in, he’d be back in Kenya by now.


4 posted on 07/28/2010 10:36:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try. ~Master Yoda)
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To: Rufus2007
In a different piece Assange said he offered the docs to the WH via the NYT as intermediary. Either way the WH apparently didn't care about it.

The Assange interview will air Saturday, July 31 at 10 a.m. on the Fox Business Network, according to Napolitano.
That's 10am EDT I assume.

5 posted on 07/28/2010 10:40:42 PM PDT by 1066AD
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“If true, this is a epic failure by the Obama White House.”

Agreed, if true. The media is becoming less tolerant of the Obama admin, as the people figure out how the to weasel branches of government are selling the country down the river.

To retain whatever tiny shreds of credibility they may still possess, the media is more likely to start airing these sorts of failures. Of course, there are some organizations that have gone so far around the bend with the Libs/Obamites, that they really have nothing to lose by continuing the silent treatment. Chances are, those segments are dead anyway. My powers of prognostication are very poor when it comes to detemining timeframes. Most of media is eventually on the way out, in their present form.

Hopefully, come November, there will be a flock of Lib pols heading in the same direction.


6 posted on 07/28/2010 10:41:30 PM PDT by Habibi ("It is vain to do with more what can be done with less." - William of Occam)
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I'll have to side with the Obamaroids on this one. It's hard to keep track of one major information leak when everything else is going out the back door.
7 posted on 07/28/2010 10:50:02 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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Oh yeah, while Obama sat around for two weeks knowing NATIONAL SECURITY documents were about to be published, he found the time to alertly fire Shirley Sherrod within hours, and to then alertly reverse himself.


8 posted on 07/28/2010 11:12:14 PM PDT by reagandemocrat
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To: Rufus2007

This is why Hillary recently stated that Pakistan knows where OBL is.


9 posted on 07/28/2010 11:24:55 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (posted a total of 1,459 threads and 8,556 replies.)
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Just curious... if the White House said “yes send over the documents” what would that have said about the administration in and of itself. If they found themselves in possession of secret intel, it could have been a further violation of federal law. Perhaps not for The President but maybe for staffers. And what could the White House have gained by requesting the documents?

I have no love for this administration’s policies but I gotta think responding to Wikileaks is a no-win proposition.


10 posted on 07/28/2010 11:36:45 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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If this is true, OBama must be tried for treason.

If my kids were serving now, I’d tell them to desert.


11 posted on 07/29/2010 2:14:10 AM PDT by NoLibZone (Liberals are right. The AZ situation is like Nazi Germany. Mexico is Germany and Arizona is Poland)
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To: All

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12 posted on 07/29/2010 7:43:37 AM PDT by SF_Redux
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To: Rufus2007

I believe I read that Gibbs (?) said that the WH made no effort to restrain the docs.


13 posted on 07/29/2010 8:53:30 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: monkeyshine
From what I heard yesterday, Wiki offered these up to the WH so they could be perused and redacted.

Some of the information contained in these documents was names, locations and even family member names of informants that gave information to NATO to track down terrorists in Afghanistan.

These people lives along with their families are now in danger.

14 posted on 07/29/2010 9:08:27 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Because without America, there is no free world" - Canada Free Press - MSM, where are you?)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

I see. Thanks for clarifying that. The Wikileak guy could have/should have redacted names. definitely not cool and even against his interest to put people in harms way.

I was mainly focused on what the White House could have gained. I think there was no way to win. Could the WH work with him knowing he was going to publish classified info? I doubt it, even if they were just trying to protect people it would have looked like cooperating with the release of classified data. No win for them either way.


15 posted on 07/29/2010 9:49:27 AM PDT by monkeyshine
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