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Title: WikiLeaks' Julian Assange: Does Sarah Palin think CIA should 'neutralize' him?
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Christian Science Monitor
URL Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politi ... hink-CIA-should-neutralize-him
Published: Nov 30, 2010
Author: staff
Post Date: 2010-11-30 20:47:51 by buckeroo
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Views: 160
Comments: 6
On Twitter and Facebook, Palin criticizes the Obama administration's handling of the 'WikiLeaks Fiasco' and asks why Julian Assange is not treated like an Al Qaeda or Taliban leader. Sarah Palin says WikiLeaks committed a “treasonous act” with its document dump of US diplomatic secrets. Furthermore, on her Twitter feed Tuesday she said Congress should prod the Obama administration to use “all necessary means to respond to and defeat WikiLeaks.” Whoa. Is Ms. Palin, saying that the US should treat WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a target to be snatched off the streets somewhere by the CIA? Or maybe even, um, neutralized, so to speak? That may be the case. And she would not be the only Republican public figure calling for such action. First off, let’s get the treason thing out of the way – treason is generally defined as a crime that undermines one’s own government, and that means Assange in particular and WikiLeaks in general can’t be treasonous in the context of United States interests. Assange is Australian, and WikiLeaks is a stateless computer cloud. It’s possible that the document leak damaged Australian interests, so perhaps Assange committed treason in that sense. But he’d have to be tried for that Down Under. If he ever shows up there. However, that does not mean Assange did not break some important US law. A senior US defense official on Tuesday said that American government agencies are investigating whether they can charge Assange or anyone else associated with WikiLeaks under the Espionage Act. Technically speaking, this law would allow lengthy prison sentences or even the death penalty as punishments for disseminating information with the intent to interfere with the operation of the US armed forces. But it has been seldom used since its passage during World War I and it’s not clear how higher courts might interpret the law today. Palin, for her part, has been questioning the competence of the Obama administration in the wake of what she calls on her Twitter feed the “WikiLeaks Fiasco.” On Tuesday she included a link to an online Weekly Standard editorial by William Kristol, former chief of staff to GOP VP Dan Quayle, titled “Whack WikiLeaks.” In the piece Mr. Kristol argues that the WikiLeaks leak makes the US look like a “pitiful, helpless giant,” and urges the administration to take more forceful action. “Why can’t we use our various assets to harass, snatch or neutralize Julian Assange and his collaborators, wherever they are? Why can’t we disrupt and destroy WikiLeaks in both cyberspace and physical space, to the extent possible?” Kristol writes. Hmm. “Harass, snatch or neutralize.” That sounds like Kristol is calling for a presidential directive to the CIA for clandestine activity, doesn’t it? Palin is forwarding the link to this story around, so presumably she supports what he’s saying. On her Facebook page she provides a little more detail, saying of Assange, "He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands. His past posting of classified documents revealed the identity of more than 100 Afghan sources to the Taliban. Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders?" That's something Rick Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania and possible GOP presidential candidate, could agree with. In a speech in New Hampshire on Tuesday Mr. Santorum urged that Assange be treated as a terrorist. “We haven’t gone after this guy, we haven’t tried to prosecute him, we haven’t gotten our allies to go out and lock this guy up and bring him up on terrorism charges,” said Santorum of Assange. “What he’s doing is terrorism in my opinion.”
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#1. To: buckeroo (#0)
Assange is currently being sought by Interpol on charges of rape.
I want either less corruption or more opportunity to participate in it. Ashleigh Brilliant
American government agencies are the ones that need to be charged not the outfit that reported what these vultures are doing to us and the world.
I think Interpol is the least of his worries. He is probably already marked for assassination by either the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO or the CIA. The Iranian secret police as well as the Israeli mossad want to see him, shall we say .... dead, too. You will probably hear a news brief about him in the MSM concerning his own guilt about the torment and mental anguish concerning the rapes in Sweden that he perpetually suffers. The suicide note shall detail the specifics.
Not to mention child sodomy and having gratutious sex with humming birds and goats.
Tom - - buckeroo
I doubt it.
God is always good!
“We haven’t gone after this guy, we haven’t tried to prosecute him, we haven’t gotten our allies to go out and lock this guy up and bring him up on terrorism charges,” said Santorum of Assange. “What he’s doing is terrorism in my opinion.”
#2. To: buckeroo (#0)
Tuesday said that American government agencies are investigating whether they can charge Assange or anyone else associated with WikiLeaks under the Espionage Act. Te
"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
#3. To: angK (#1)
Assange is currently being sought by Interpol on charges of rape.
#4. To: buckeroo (#3)
You will probably hear a news brief about him in the MSM concerning his own guilt about the torment and mental anguish concerning the rapes in Sweden that he perpetually suffers. The suicide note shall detail the specifics.
"Satan / Cheney in "08"
#5. To: tom007 (#4)
Just a quick note: I think your reformed tagline is spot on!
#6. To: buckeroo (#0)
Does Sarah Palin think
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