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  1. All of these events are scathing indictments of our digital security, and of the cowardly passivity of not hunting down and severely hammering the perps.

  2. I am not sure which disgusts me more, the actions of wikileaks or the flaccid reaction of our government (not that their response surprises me as our government is lead by a man who is a fellow traveler).

    We need to realize that releasing this information puts our men and women in uniform at risk. If this information results in one of them getting so much as a hang nail I am all for bringing back the hang man.

    When are we going to figure out that we are in the middle of a war with a implacable ideology that has explicitly called for our elimination?

  3. According to one of the headline articles that has drifted on and off the top-of-page at HotAir, the leaked documents also prove extensive and nefarious Iranian involvement in much of the violence in Iraq and in the surrounding region. They also document the discovery of chemical weapons. Some were new, most were left over from Saddam’s stockpiles (which he had ordered destroyed) and most were cached in ways that suggested that Iranian-backed insurgents had stored them.

    Of course, this news won’t make the Left-Wing media.

    (Oh, and Andrew Klavan has a new vid on PJTV about left, right, and the overshifted center.)

  4. But there were no WMDs!! Bush lied and people died!!! Bush had daddy issues so he made up some invisible WMDs!! Saddam never had any weapons, only puppies and roses!!

    It does seem to me sometimes that our own government is bent on destroying the country and therefore in large part itself also. Why though? Does this go back to another recurring theme here, that those who profess to hate injustice only want to be the ones on top of the pig pile?

    I wonder how long we have until critical pig-pile-ness has been achieved.

  5. I’m so upset and disgusted by this that I don’t even know what to type. I hope that son of a bitch who leaked goes to jail forever, but realistically nothing’s going to happen to him. Our government doesn’t have the will to go after leakers. And of course, each time someone leaks with no consequences, that makes it look more attractive for the next person to do just the same thing. Maybe we don’t deserve to win.

  6. It strikes me the Assanges, Ellsbergs et al. are the contemporary equivalents of the anarchists one hundred years ago. There were rather a lot of them, not just the few “successful” ones, who killed McKinley and Archduke Ferdinand.

    There is a lesson here: the amplification of the (nominally unpowered) individual, by use of immoral means, to derange social stability and harm and kill millions. They cannot succeed without abetters; in Assange’s case, leakers (unless he is an extraordinary hacker) and amplifying voices (NY Times, Der Spiegel).

    It also seems clear that the Assanges are sociopaths of the first order, cloaking themselves in principled garb, like Ted Bundy.

  7. It’s almost as though the enemy doesn’t exist for them, except as victim.

    You don’t get it, neo. We are the enemy.

    Shift perspective from a geocentric to a heliocentric solar system, and you can do away with complicated cycloidal orbits.

    If you assume Assange is a loyal American trying to advance the cause of human rights and transparency, his actions (and omissions) are inexplicable.

    But if instead you assume Assange is a leftist subversive trying to undermine this country, and everything drops into place. Of course he has no interest in Saddam’s transgressions. How would promuilgating those hurt America?

    Simple, really.

  8. Occam’s Beard: I never assumed Assange is an anything American. He is Australian.

    I believe I read a while back that Wikileaks is staffed for the most part by non-Americans. Their sources are probably American, but we don’t know their identities.

  9. Neo, oops. My bad. Didn’t know that.

    But a Red is a Red is a Red. And in any case, he’s obviously trying to undermine America, any rubbish about a higher calling notwithstanding.

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