In an interview yesterday, Rep. Connie Mack, R-Cape Coral, defended the American public’s right to know the information contained in the hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables leaked to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, saying “the blame here should fall on the administration and the Department of Defense.”
Rep Mack, the people do not have the right to know secret/classified information just because it was stolen and published. This is absurd. The government has every right to protect sensitive information against the press as well as speech freedoms when it was obtained illegally.
On the other end of the spectrum, Mike Huckabee said Monday that the leaking of the documents constitutes “treason” and that “anything less than execution is too kind a penalty.”
Go the The Florida Independent and see the video.
Joining Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Post Finance, Bank of America said on Friday they would decline to process payments made to WikiLeaks. The news of the payment denial arrived just 24-hours after WikiLeaks Julian Assange was released on bail, and rumors of a financial leak started to spread. Source: The TechHerald
In the meantime, the CIA pulled our top spy in Pakistan because of identity leak which resulted in death threats. Julian Assange says "I fear U.S. indictment." He should. Let's hope that the U.S. can succeed on this one and doesn't get bogged down by Freedom of Speech politicos who wrongly believe that Assange is some sort of a Demigod.
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