[Peace-discuss] Ineptitude of US assassination squads
C. G. Estabrook
galliher at illinois.edu
Sat Oct 30 22:17:36 CDT 2010
This is outrageous. And the sort of thing the Obama presidency has encouraged.
On 10/30/10 6:38 PM, Ron Szoke wrote:
> 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.
>
> <cut>
>
> <http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/251393/all-quiet-black-ops-
> front-jonah-goldberg>
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