WikiLeaks

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Julian Paul Assange is an Australian internet activist and journalist best known for his involvement with Wikileaks, a whistleblower website. Assange was a physics and mathematics student, a hacker and a computer programmer, before taking on his current role as spokesperson and editor in chief for Wikileaks.

http://www.wikileaks.com/

This guy is going to piss off someone or some government and end up dead somewhere sooner or later.

And it looks like the Obama Administration has been lying to the American public and the media!

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You are right, O'bama lied and people died, jesus windy, did you get your head stuck in a wood pecker hole?

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Well for all the "lies" the liberals and Democrats blamed on Bush, Obama is just following in his foot steps.

GITMO isn't closed, we're NOT out of Iraq and the war in Afghanistan is only getting worse.

But this WikiLeaks guy is an idiot!

People who tell secrets have no "real" friends or allies, sooner or later he is going to piss off the worng person.

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Gates: WikiLeaks Morally 'Guilty' Over Release of Afghan War Documents

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said whistleblower website WikiLeaks is morally "guilty" for its decision to release nearly 80,000 secret military documents pertaining to the Afghanistan war.

Speaking on the Sunday news shows, Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, expressed concern about the potential damage the massive leak could do, including putting Afghan informants in harm's way.

"My attitude on this is that there are two areas of culpability. One is legal culpability. And that's up to the Justice Department and others. That's not my arena. But there's also a moral culpability. And that's where I think the verdict is guilty on WikiLeaks," Gates said on ABC's "This Week." "They have put this out without any regard whatsoever for the consequences."

Gates said he was "mortified" and "appalled" by the release. He said the need to protect sources is "sacrosanct" and that WikiLeaks showed "no sense of responsibility."

Mullen, speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press," said some of the United States' Afghan sources could be killed as a result of the leak. He noted that the Taliban have said they are examining the names in the reams of documents.

"The potential for costing us lives I think is significant," Mullen said, adding that the publication of the information could endanger people, operations and "outcomes."

He said on CBS' "Face the Nation" that the U.S. government is trying to protect its Afghan informants in the wake of the leak.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has vigorously defended his decision to release the documents and provide information about them ahead of time to three major publications. He said last week that the documents' contents appear to show evidence of war crimes.

It's not only a crime to "steal" classified military information, but it's also a crime to publish it.

Why hasn't the Obama Administration issued an international arrest warrant for Julian Paul Assange?

You have to wonder how "outraged" Obama and his progressive friends are over these leaks.

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What a leader, what do you think he would do if NK sent a nuke into LA? I think the first thing he would do is call up a UN meeting to discuss a harshly worded letter or maybe serious sanctions.

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Julian Assange: Wikileaks founder fears he could be arrested

Julian Assange, the Australian founder of Wikileaks, has said he has been warned by "inside sources in the White House" not to return to the US as he could be arrested.

The 39 year-old told journalists at the Frontline Club last night that US government insiders had informed him about discussions to charge him as a co-conspirator to espionage.

The discussions were later dropped.

Mr Assange says despite this he still fears he is at risk of being forcefully detained by the US government as a material witness in the prosecution of US intelligence analyst Bradley Manning.

Mr Manning, 22, was arrested in Baghdad in May and charged earlier this month with multiple counts of mishandling and leaking classified data, after a computer hacker turned him in.

In the United States an authority has the right to detain and hold a material witness for an indefinite period to ensure they give their testimony in a criminal investigation.

The Wikileaks founder said: "Today the White House put out a private briefing to reporters about Wikileaks and me and it quoted a section from an interview with me in Der Spiegel saying that I enjoy crushing --------.

"Somehow the White House finds that offensive.

"In terms of returning to the United States I don't know. Our sources advise from inside the US government that there were thoughts of whether I could be charged as a co-conspirator to espionage, which is serious.

"That doesn't seem to be the thinking within the United States any more however there is the other possibility of being detained as a material witness and being kept either in confinement or not being allowed to leave the country until the Manning case is concluded."

He also claimed that Bradley Manning is being held in a secluded facility in Kuwait which he says is like "a second Guantanamo Bay".

He also accused the US government of doing this to "hide" Mr Manning from effective civil representation.

If convicted Bradley Manning, who is also awaiting court martial, faces a maximum of 52 years in jail.

The latest news story is Julian Assange has been tipped off by White House "insiders" not to step foot in the US or he will be arrested.

Why the HELL hasn't the Obama Administration demanded the British arrest him and send him here to stand trial is beyond me.

That's the Obama Administration... claim moral outrage & threaten legal charges, but take no action.

Meanwhile our troops are at risk and so our our Afghan allies.

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More illegal crap, change voted for by the people, kill the true Americans and save the terrorist. obama is not even an American, where is his birth certificate, why won't he show it? He is a terrorist socialist liar.

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It's just as illegal to "leak" as it is to "publish" the classified infromation.

We may NEVER know or prove who leaked the documents, but we do know Julian Assange published them and knew they were classified.