Posted on Monday, 6th December 2010 by Roland_Melnick
My gut reaction to the Wikileaks story was to stand behind our government. Assange is conspiring with individuals to obtain confidential US Government information…property of the Federal Government…and making it public with the obvious intent to weaken the US Government and its policies. It amazes me that the Obama Administration hasn’t taken a more forceful stance on this guy. Not knowing how to handle Assange is one more example of the amateurish leadership we are saddled with until 2012.
In the last few days, I’ve followed news reports that Assange has been thrown out of some computer servers and been targeted for cyber-attacks in others. While not the only country with a motive to wage such attacks, it’s my belief…my hope, really…that we are the ones kicking Assange’s virtual butt.
After this report from the UK’s The Sunday Times via Fox News, it has been made clear that we need to pull our heads out of our collective asses and recognize Assange and his cohorts for what they are…terrorists:
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has circulated across the internet an encrypted “poison pill” cache of uncensored documents suspected to include files on BP and Guantanamo Bay.
One of the files identified this weekend by The Sunday Times — called the “insurance” file — has been downloaded from the WikiLeaks website by tens of thousands of supporters, from America to Australia.
Assange warns that any government that tries to curtail his activities risks triggering a new deluge of state and commercial secrets.
The military papers on Guantanamo Bay, yet to be published, have been supplied by Bradley Manning, Assange’s primary source until his arrest in May. Other documents that Assange is confirmed to possess
include an aerial video of a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan that killed civilians, BP files and Bank of America documents.
The U.S. Department of Defense says it is aware of the WikiLeaks insurance file, but has been unable to establish its contents. It has been available for download since July.
Assange has warned he can divulge the classified documents in the insurance file and similar backups if he is detained or the WikiLeaks website is permanently removed from the internet. He has suggested
the contents are unredacted, posing a possible security risk for coalition partners around the world.
Assange warned: “We have over a long period of time distributed encrypted backups of material we have yet to release. All we have to do is release the password to that material, and it is instantly
available.”
The “doomsday files” are part of a contingency plan drawn up by Assange and his supporters as they face a legal threat. He is wanted in Sweden over sexual assault allegations, and the US administration is
reviewing the possibility of legal action after the release of 250,000 diplomatic cables.
Ben Laurie, a London-based computer security expert who has advised WikiLeaks, said: “Julian’s a smart guy and this is an interesting tactic. He will hope it deters anyone from acting against him.”
Assange has an army co-conspirators out there who threaten to carry out his agenda if any action is taken to stop him. If this guy was threatening physical harm or death in return for our compliance, there would be no shortage of rhetoric and action against him (I would hope, anyway). If this guy was demanding a monetary ransom in return for our compliance, our resolve to go at him full-force would be almost as strong. Why should we allow our stance in the world…our foreign policy…to be held hostage in the same manner? Being weak in the knees over Assange will only give credibility to Obama’s critics who claim Obama wants America’s influence and standing in the world to diminish.
Another aspect to the story that may tantalize the American Left was the targeting of big corporations:
Assange said last year that he had been leaked a computer hard drive from an executive at Bank of America and warned this month he was planning a major release on a large American bank. He also claims to have confidential files on BP and other energy companies.
Nevermind any damage to the millions of people employed by these and other corporations. Nevermind the damage to numerous economies around the world that are already in peril.
Surely Obama sees this…he’s not stupid right? Maybe Obama is dragging his feet for another reason. Perhaps Assange has dirt on the Bush Presidency that Obama would love to see out on public display. From day one of his Presidency (day one of his campaign, actually), Obama has blamed George W. Bush for every ill the US suffers…housing crash, stock market crash, budgetary crashes, global warming, racism, homophobia, unemployment, etc, etc.
The list of grievances is long, but the blame game has been played out. At a time when he has lost the ability to deflect attention away from his own inadequacies, Obama needs a fresh infusion of Blame Bush Fuel. Unable to disclose such material himself, Assange’s threat to reveal material on such topics as Guantanamo Bay detainees may give rise to a revival of the Bush Derangement Syndrome that has substituted for leadership from our President and the Democrat controlled Congress.
Or will it?
This article from the Guardian UK exposes the dirty deal-making of world wide climate politics. An issue that is repeatedly been spun as a crisis, or as Ted Turner put it: “global warming is a matter of life death.”
He is playing my country’s political leadership for fools. He’s weakening our ability to conduct foreign relations. I want to hate Julian Assange, but what if his actions ultimately sabotage the ultra-Leftist agenda that is bent on weakening our economy through global warming/climate politics and Cap and Trade policies? It is tempting to think that a particular viewpoint I hold could be advanced through a portion of this leaked material. Assange can’t be all bad, right?
Wrong. I think his aim is anti-American damage…period. His motives aren’t governed by partisan American viewpoints. Cherry-picking issues out of the entirety of the Wikileaks saga is a double-edge sword of the sharpest kind. Instead, the prospect of his downfall is something Americans should unite behind…if only Obama would step up and lead us there.
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December 6th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
ASSange needs a visit from Scott Coleman.
December 6th, 2010 at 11:51 pm
Glenn. LIBTARDS have painted themselves into a corner. Libtards have asserted that foreign terrorists, foreign spies (Assange) and foreign espionage agents…..ARE BEYOND THE SCOPE and REACH of our CIA, and MILITARY.
Bush and Cheney were called WAR CRIMINALS for keeping us safe. Incoming TERRORIST PHONE CALLS were called DOMESTIC SPYING, despite the fact that Clinton did the same and so does Obama.
Now we have a problem. We’ve given PATHETIC WIMPISH LOSER LIBS…..POWER.
And Glenn D. Frankovis and his MOTHER are considered a bigger threat than the OBVIOUS threats to our nation.
Why? Because LIBTARDS are MENTALLY ILL.
O/T Has KEITH SCHITZ PAID BACK SHOREWOOD YET???
December 7th, 2010 at 5:56 am
Julian Assange and Pvt. Bradley Manning should be executed. Information they have “leaked” in the past have resulted in the deaths of people working with the US and our allies in the War on Terror.
December 7th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
We clearly have jurisdiction over Pvt. Manning and he should be charged as harshly as possible under the UCMJ. His superiors should also be under investigation.
But as far as Assange is concerned, I’m less convinced. He clearly doesn’t like the USA and is actively attempting to do us harm in any way he can. He is involved in publishing US classified material. However, the NY Times and Chicago Tribune have also done this.
Assange is apparently being arrested for not using a condom when the women thought he was going to use one. He is going to be extradited from Britian to Sweden over not wearing a rubber. Maybe this is common practice between EU countries but I find that hard to believe.
I would like to see this guy in jail. But, more than that I want to see it done correctly.
December 9th, 2010 at 8:38 am
How is Assange a terrorist? He is only publishing US documents. Don’t blame the messenger.
And for people calling for treason- hes not even a US citizen.
December 9th, 2010 at 10:49 am
Britain might be able to try him for treason but we can’t. Espionage maybe, but not treason.
I’m much more interested in Pvt. Manning and finding out why he was able to download everything he did. Were his superiors accomplices, negligent, or is our cyber security so lax that a pfc can do anything he wants?
December 9th, 2010 at 1:08 pm
I suffer from Obama Derangement Syndrome, and I take offense to you making light of my mentally crippling disease.
December 11th, 2010 at 10:19 am
You all will be happy to know that I made it through the entire Thanksgiving holiday and weekend after while staying on my medications. My wife says it gives my personality a certain “blandness” but is a welcome trade-off so the family would not have to endure my “Bush lied” Tourette’s-like outbursts that, in years past, occasionally caused me to spew a frothy mix of mashed potatoes and saliva across the dinner table. With the Lord’s help, I will stay on an even keel and maintain.
December 12th, 2010 at 2:14 am
A messenger, JC? Is that all he is?
Granted, a cyber-attack isn’t the same as detonating a car bomb, but releasing classified material that puts real people in physical danger goes beyond relaying a message.
Beyond that, he has an army of followers who have attacked private companies’ websites. Allegedly these attacks were in retribution for having “dissed” Wikileaks. ABC News reporter Devin Dwyer had this:
Downloads of the software program used by Wikileaks supporters to launch cyberattacks online spiked overnight, topping more than 43,000 downloads in the past week, according to the U.S. data security company Imperva.
While impossible to know whether all the computer users had joined the ongoing “cyberwar” against U.S. companies that severed ties to Wikileaks, the data suggest a growing number of people are answering the call to arms put out by a scrappy, decentralized coalition of WikiLeaks defenders that calls itself Anonymous.
There were 700 worldwide downloads of the widely available software, Low Orbit Ion Cannon, or LOIC, Monday, with more than 27,000 downloads occurring Thursday, according to Imperva web security researcher Tal Beery.
Over the past few days, members of Anonymous have successfully knocked corporate websites for MasterCard, Visa and Paypal offline. There are also signs that it was behind attacks on Swedish government websites and those tied to Sarah Palin and Sen. Joe Lieberman.
There are consequences to the game he’s playing.
Another sickening twist to the story is the lunatic asylum known as Berkeley, California wants to label Pvt. Brad Manning a hero.