[Peace-discuss] Final corruption of US liberals

[C. G. Estabrook]

Those who want to defend the shabby virtues of American liberals should note 
what one of their number, Sen. Diane Feinstein, wrote (in the Wall Street 
Journal...) this week. Sen. Joseph McCarthy could not have done better.

“When WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange released his latest document trove—more 
than 250,000 secret State Department cables—he intentionally harmed the U.S. 
government. The release of these documents damages our national interests and 
puts innocent lives at risk. He should be vigorously prosecuted for espionage.

“The law Mr. Assange continues to violate is the Espionage Act of 1917. That law 
makes it a felony for an unauthorized person to possess or transmit 'information 
relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to 
believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of 
any foreign nation' ... Importantly, the courts have held that 'information 
relating to the national defense' applies to both classified and unclassified 
material. Each violation is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.”

I'm sure the pig-ignorant Ms. Feinstein knows nothing about the circumstances 
that produced the Espionage Act of 1917 - or of the brave people prosecuted 
under it (by a liberal Democratic administration). But she's an indication of 
where the awful American liberals are today.