[Peace-discuss] Ineptitude of US assassination squads

[Ron Szoke]

JONAH GOLDBERG
[National Review Online] 
OCTOBER 29, 2010
All Quiet on the Black-Ops Front 
Why isn’t Julian Assange dead?

I’d like to ask a simple question: Why isn’t Julian Assange dead?

In case you didn’t know, Assange is the Australian computer 
programmer behind WikiLeaks, a massive — and massively successful — 
effort to disclose secret or classified information. In a series of recent 
dumps, he unveiled thousands upon thousands of classified documents 
from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Military and other government 
officials insist that WikiLeaks is doing serious damage to American 
national security and is going to get people killed, including brave Iraqis 
and Afghans who’ve risked their lives and the lives of their families to 
help us.

Even Assange agrees. He told the New Yorker earlier this year that he 
fully understands innocent people might die as a result of the “collateral 
damage” of his work and that WikiLeaks may have “blood on our hands.” 
WikiLeaks is easily among the most significant and well-publicized 
breaches of American national security since the Rosenbergs gave the 
Soviets the bomb.
So again, I ask: Why wasn’t Assange garroted in his hotel room years 
ago?

It’s a serious question.

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