Individuals and news organizations that leaked Wikileaks documents should be prosecuted!

[Jake Martinez]

My recent blog post contains the following articles and/or blog posts, along with pertinent excerpts from each, that relate to this issue:

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/individuals-and-news-organ...

I. MORE WIKILEAKS-Posted on Power Line-By John-On November 28, 2010:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/11/027782.php

These are pertinent excerpts from this blog post:

“Newspapers around the world have started publishing some of the thousands of American diplomatic cables which they were given by Wikileaks. It has been reported that Wikileaks’ source was “a disenchanted, low-level Army intelligence analyst who exploited a security loophole.”

While I haven’t seen anything definitive, that sounds like a description of Bradley Manning, the same malcontent who gave Wikileaks thousands of documents relating to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Manning should never see the outside of a federal penitentiary, but how about Wikileaks and the newspapers that have published the diplomatic cables?

From a quick look, it appears to me that the criminal statute most likely to apply is 18 U.S.C. Sec. 793(e), which provides:

• Whoever having unauthorized possession of, access to, or control over any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating to the national defense, or 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, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted, or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it...Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.”

II. Morning Bell: Just Another WikiLeak On An Already Sinking Ship-Posted on The Heritage Foundation-On November 29, 2010:

http://blog.heritage.org/2010/11/29/morning-bell-just-another-wikil...

These are pertinent excerpts from this article and/or blog post:

“There is nothing positive that can be said about the release of more than a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables by the rogue hacker organization WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks has recklessly and inexcusably put lives at risk.

Any U.S. person who cooperated with WikiLeaks has committed a crime and should be prosecuted to the maximum extent of the law.”

III. WikiLeaks and Consequences-Posted on CommentaryMagazine.com-By J. E. DYER-On November 29, 2010:

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/j-e-dyer/382731

These are pertinent excerpts from this article and/or blog post:

“When all is said and done regarding the WikiLeaks diplomatic-cable data dump, two things may be of special note.

One is that on the day of the promised dump, WikiLeaks is suffering a massive but relatively low-tech cyber attack. Experts observe that the U.S. government has more sophisticated ways to commit cyber-sabotage; it’s not clear who would be doing this, or why.

The other noteworthy aspect of the event is the topic Max Boot discusses: the complicity of the mainstream media in publicizing the WikiLeaks gambit and creating buzz about it. I certainly agree that the media organizations have behaved as irresponsibly as Max outlines. And it’s worth reflecting, if only briefly, on the ambulance-chasing level to which they seem to have descended in a professional sense.

The New York Times’s top “revelation” from the cables is a case in point. The authors inform us breathlessly that the U.S. has been secretly pressing Pakistan to better secure the high-enriched uranium at a research-reactor complex. But who could be surprised by this?

The New York Times itself published an extensive report in 2007 on America’s detailed, hands-on efforts to improve nuclear security in Pakistan. In April 2010, during President Obama’s nuclear-security summit, the Times documented the unique concern among Western leaders with the new research reactors being built in Pakistan. The UN is pressing Pakistan to place the new reactors under IAEA supervision. Nuclear security in Pakistan has been a major topic for pundits and diplomats for quite a while now. The U.S. has made it the focus of a key bilateral project since 9/11.

The surprise — especially for faithful readers of the New York Times — would be if America were not actively working to make Pakistan’s high-enriched uranium more secure.

A free press has often meant an adversarial press, and that in itself is not inherently bad. But an adversarial posture is justified by the constructiveness of its goals.”

Questions:

1. Am I the only one who has noticed that WikiLeaks didn’t seem to have access to America’s top secrets until President Obama’s inauguration and isn’t it interesting that, although this is the third time that WikiLeaks has undermined our nation’s national security, the Department of Justice has been silent each time?

2. Could President Obama and his administration be using Wikileaks as part of their Cloward-Piven Strategy in their final push to destroy our country and/or turn it into a one-world government?

“Food For Thought”

“God Bless & Keep Our USA Safe”

Semper Fi!
Jake