– Rep. Peter King: WikiLeaks Should Be A ‘Terror Organisation’
– Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and ex-Pentagon official KT McFarland were among those claiming the guilty party should face execution for putting national security at risk by leaking the inflammatory information.
KT McFarland, who held national security posts under the Nixon, Ford and Reagan governments, backed the calls, saying Private Bradley Manning – the chief suspect of leaking the files – should face treason charges and possible execution. (Read more from telegraph.co.uk)
– Glen Greenwald: “there are few countries in the world with citizenries and especially media outlets more devoted to serving, protecting and venerating government authorities than the U.S. Indeed, I don’t quite recall any entity producing as much bipartisan contempt across the American political spectrum as WikiLeaks has: as usual, for authoritarian minds, those who expose secrets are far more hated than those in power who commit heinous acts using secrecy as their principal weapon.” (Read more from salon.com)
– Jack Hunter (via facebook): “umm… What was worse for national security? Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby blowing Valerie Plame’s CIA cover to get back at her husband? Or ANYTHING we’ve seen from Wikileaks? Just saying…”
“thinks its weird how certain conservatives become obsessed with “exposing” Obama’s supposedly secret socialist or Muslim background, but freak out when Wikileaks exposes actual government shadiness. I guess conspiracy theories are only fun so long as they remain theories.”
– “That’s why the Establishment of both parties, and pundits on the neocon right and the Obama-ite left, are out to knife Assange and bring down WikiLeaks. They may fight about how much to raise the retirement age, and how to divide the tax loot, but when it comes to defending the Empire – and the cult of secrecy that su…stains it in a ‘democratic’ Imperium such as ours – they stand united, both red and blue.” (Read more from antiwar.com)
– Why I Love WikiLeaks – For restoring distrust in our most important institutions.