Found this via Wings Over Iraq, or rather the WOI Facebook page: It seems that an eager coterie of media outlets around the world, including un-named outlets here in the States, are about to cooperate with brave sir Robin, or some of his minions, in providing a massive simultaneous docudump of materials and stories concerning the Iraq War.
Remind me of what General Sherman had to say in a similar context.....
“..I will illustrate by examples fresh in the memory of all, why I regard newspaper correspondents as spies & why as a servant of an enlightened government I feel bound in honor and in common honesty to shape my official conduct accordingly. A spy is one who furnishes an enemy with knowledge useful to him and dangerous to us. One who bears into a Fortress or Camp a baleful influence that encourages sedition or weakens us. He need not be an enemy, is often a trader woman or servant. Such characters are by all belligerents punished summarily with the extremest penalties, not because they are of themselves filled with guilty thought or intent but because he or she endangers the safety of an army, a nation, or the cause for which it is contending."
I think it is at least defensible at this point, both morally and legally, for the U.S. government to make the case that Wikileaks and cooperating individuals within the U.S. military, like Bradley Manning are subject to those portions of U.S. law and the UCMJ that cover espionage, and that Asschapeau, his minions and those that turned over documents should be apprehended, and made to feel the full force of those laws. This man need not be allowed to travel freely and continue this dangerously reckless behavior.
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