[Peace-discuss] Ineptitude of US assassination squads

[C. G. Estabrook]

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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