Yes, WikiLeaks Is a Terrorist Organization and the Time to Act Is NOW: Oh god
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[quote]On Monday, Attorney General Holder proudly announced the U.S. government had shut down websites that sold pirated luxury goods or shared videos and songs. But shutting down a website that offers pirated secret government documents and damages United States' security? Not a chance.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange isn’t some well-meaning, anti-war protestor leaking documents in hopes of ending an unpopular war. He’s waging cyberwar on the United States and the global world order.
Mr. Assange and his fellow hackers are terrorists and should be prosecuted as such.
We’ve now seen another dump of thousands of classified documents on WikiLeaks– from the military, the Pentagon and now the State Department – and yet we still haven’t shut it down. We should have done it months ago. Instead our response has been limp. "Phew," we say, "it could have been worse. The leaks aren’t telling us anything new."
But it’s not the contents of the leaked documents that matter, it’s the fact that the U.S. government can no longer keep its secrets. How eager will foreign leaders be now to offer candid assessments of their own countries or comment on their neighbors? How willing will foreign intelligence agencies be to share covert information? For example, Saudi Arabia, one of the countries most compromised by WikiLeaks, is our major source of intelligence on Al Qaeda in Yemen and it’s terror plots. What if they decide they can’t risk their sources and methods will show up on the front page of the New York Times and other publications around the world and they stop sharing what they know?
The answer is obvious. -- The United States should move immediately and aggressively against WikiLeaks. And President Obama should take the following four steps:
1. Declare WikiLeaks a terrorist organization. Move to freeze its assets and have the Pentagon's new Cyber Command shut it down.
2. Shut the site down. The U.S. should urge fellow NATO ally Iceland (which hosts the WikiLeaks website) to shut it down, and suggest that if they do not do so immediately our relations will suffer. Ditto for any other country that steps up to host the website.
3. Get Assange's passport pulled. The president needs to get on the phone with the Australians (who are eagerly awaiting our call) and ask them to pull WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s passport. Once he’s cornered and can no longer travel, they can find him and charge him with espionage. Then the president can ask the country he’s hiding in to extradite him to the United States and try him in a military tribunal.
4. Up the charges against Manning. We’ve had accused WikiLeaks leaker Army Specialist Pvt. Bradley Manning in custody since July. He's been charged with transferring classified data and “delivering national defense information to an unauthorized source." It's time to up the charges. Let's charge him and try him for treason. If he's found guilty, he should be executed.
Finally, if all else fails, every American should to go to WikiLeaks.org, hit the refresh button a couple dozen times and crash their site.
If we don’t deal quickly and decisively with what is a cyberattack on America, we can expect WikiLeaks 2.0 and Pvt. Manning copycats to do this kind of thing over and over again and again. In fact, Mr. Assange has already announced plans to ‘bring down major bank’ by leaking information about its accounts and practices.
Kathleen Troia "K.T." McFarland is a Fox News National Security Analyst and host of FoxNews.com's DefCon 3. She is a Distinguished Adviser to the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and served in national security posts in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations. She wrote Secretary of Defense Weinberger’s November 1984 "Principles of War Speech" which laid out the Weinberger Doctrine. Be sure to watch "K.T." every Monday at 10 a.m. ET on FoxNews.com's "DefCon3" already one of the Web's most watched national security programs.[/quote]
I fucking lol'ed.
From Fox News:
[url]http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/11/30/yes-wikileaks-terrorist-organization-time-act/[/url]
1. No source.
2. This is an editorial.
OH THE TERROR of information. I think they should be a bit more careful about what they release though. They seem like the little kid who goes around telling everyone about everyone else's secrets.
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Good laugh, worst [B]editorial[/B].
Fix'd bold
[QUOTE=GoldenGnome;26414200]1. No source.
2. This is an editorial.[/QUOTE]
3. Its fox news
[editline]30th November 2010[/editline]
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Good laugh, worst article.[/QUOTE]
I wanted to shoot someone on sight of this image.
Oh Fox, you're so silly.
Fucking Fox News, they should just condemn themselves to eternal suffering now and be done with it...
This article gave me cancer.
" :v: " - My only response
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;26414242]3. Its fox news
[editline]30th November 2010[/editline]
I wanted to shoot someone on sight of this image.[/QUOTE]
Better? :3:
[Quote="Fox NEWS"]4. Up the charges against Manning. We’ve had accused WikiLeaks leaker Army Specialist Pvt. Bradley Manning in custody since July. He's been charged with transferring classified data and “delivering national defense information to an unauthorized source." It's time to up the charges. Let's charge him and try him for treason. If he's found guilty, he should be executed. [/quote]
Fucking zealots is what they are. They are the ones who deserve to be in prison.
Fox News.
:frogdowns:
Didn't Assagne have a stockpile of Tomahawk missiles in his basement with plans to attack West Point?
Freedom of speech.
Oh wow, hurting foreign relations with other nations is a GREAT idea, Fox. I also like the, "Thinking outside of the box", idea of hitting the refresh button multiple times to crash the site. No really, good work.
I can sympathise with some of her concerns, particularly in regards to intelligence transferral between nations. However, she's taking a bizarrely hardline approach in her response, which ultimately won't, and shouldn't, work.
[QUOTE=imadaman;26414299]Better? :3:[/QUOTE]
no
Down with Wikileaks!
If the Republicans get to shut down Wikileaks, then the Democrats get to shut down Fox News.
I'm pretty sure some of the Democrats would like Wikileaks gone, too - e.g. the current Democrat Administration?
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;26414459]no[/QUOTE]
He's just hell bent on posting something homestuck related. Anyways I don't really agree with wikileaks, but taking this course of action would be incredibly stupid and would only serve to damage the image of the united states further. Best course of action would be to tighten information security rather than going gestapo on Assange.
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Finally, if all else fails, every American should to go to WikiLeaks.org, hit the refresh button a couple dozen times and crash their site.[/quote]
Watch out WikiLeaks, Glen Beck followers are gonna refresh your page!
It's not a terrorist organization, but it's high up there.
I'm rooting for wikileaks
:foxnews:
I wonder what would happen if we called up Fox News with a story about how Fox News is a terrorist organisation
[QUOTE=Leaf Runner;26414794]Watch out WikiLeaks, Glen Beck followers are gonna refresh your page![/QUOTE]
Most of the people who agree with her probably wouldn't have a clue what to do if a call to DDOS wikileaks went out.
lets damage the security of the united states and other governments cause we can
[QUOTE=.Dave;26414930]lets damage the security of the united states and other governments cause we can[/QUOTE]
Pretty much Assange right there.
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