Active criminal probe into WikiLeaks release (US "will prosecute anyone found responsible.)

[kpete]

Source: Reuters

Active criminal probe into WikiLeaks release

WASHINGTON | Mon Nov 29, 2010 10:44am EST

WASHINGTON Nov 29 (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Monday that there is an "active and ongoing criminal investigation" into the release of classified U.S. documents by WikiLeaks and authorities will prosecute anyone found responsible. (Reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky, Editing by Sandra Maler)


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSWAT01474820101129

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Holder: WikiLeaks subject of ongoing probe
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/11/29/Holder-WikiLeaks-subject-of-ongoing-probe/UPI-91881291060486/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101129/ts_nm/us_wikileaks_usa_probe
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334160/U-S-launch-criminal-investigation-WikiLeaks-dossier-Hillary-Clinton-describes-attack-international-community.html

[rug]

1. How about an active and ongoing criminal investigation of those who go to war on cooked intelligence

[Nihil]

19. That would be nice.

It's not going to happen (obviously) but it would certainly be nice!
:hi:

[T Wolf]

2. I am Julian Assange. nt

[davidwparker]

14. +1

[yurbud]

17. I AM Julian Assange!

[No Elephants]

20. Well done!

[villager]

3. Boy, Empire is really revealing itself as an entity far beyond any "two" parties, isn't it?

n/t

[ThomCat]

6. It certainly is.

Empire is all about Empire. It doesn't matter what name is engraved on the nameplate on any particular desk at any particular time. The Empire still functions as an Empire.

[davidwparker]

15. Pssst. The other side is more scary. n/t

[No Elephants]

21. The Empire has two sides?

[davidwparker]

28. No, I agree it all the same. My comment was for others

who point out the other side is more scary as a means to keep supporting the status quo.

:sarcasm: was intended.

[No Elephants]

24. If only Assange had been seeing a psychiatrist in the Watergate complex!

He might have escaped being hounded internationally for sexual crimes. (idding aside, if he's guilty as charged, nail him, no matter what the motives for prosecuting him might be.)

[fatbuckel]

4. The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment

"The state department knew of the leak several months ago and had ample time to alert staff in sensitive locations. Its pre-emptive scaremongering over the weekend stupidly contrived to hint at material not in fact being published. Nor is the material classified top secret, being at a level that more than 3 million US government employees are cleared to see, and available on the defense department's internal Siprnet."

Simon Jenkins
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 28 November 2010 18.30 GMT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/nov/28/us-embassy-cables-wikileaks


Criminal investigation?

[Angry Dragon]

5. Does this mean we will see bush and cheney in jail tomorrow??

[StarburstClock]

7. War criminals walk, torture camps continue but hey, we'll get those whistleblowers!

Have fun getting groped and irradiated at the airport too and remember, if you stop shopping the terrorists win!

[glinda]

8. If he has something really incriminating to Bush Cheney, he should let it fly IMHO.

[frylock]

9. eric holder is a useless piece of shit..

shouldn't he be focusing on file sharing and medical marijuana terrorists?

[obxhead]

10. and ignore the true criminals.

I'm so happy to see all this change working for us.

[Hissyspit]

11. I think we should just look forward.

This happened in the past (few days). :sarcasm:

[No Elephants]

22. Why have cops, prosecutors, or a criminal court system?

Eery crime that has ever been committed until you read this is now in the past and, in a blink, so will the crimes being committedf as you read this. Why do we waste so much time and money on the damned rule of law, when clean tables and looking only forward are so much better for America?

[Ruperto31]

12. This helps take the heat off the State Dept, and puts it on the messenger.

I think this is called the "red herring fallacy," named after the smelly fish you throw off the trail to distract the dogs that are hunting you down.

Back on the trail, hounds!

[No Elephants]

25. Helps take the heat off the State Dept for WHAT?

For racking up billions of classified documents containing silly gossip about Gaddafi and Sarkoszy? For calling someone pudgy in a classified document? (Wow, what great intelligence we must have! We caught a much photographed man in pudginess!)

For getting Yemen to join the U.S. in trying to deceive American voters/taxpayers and the rest of the world about who was responsible for American drone attacks in Yemen?

For a diplomats who believe more in inappropriate classification thsn they do in circumspection?

For never getting the point of a Spy v Spy cartoon or a James Bond movie?


OK, these things may be sophomoric, an abuse of classifying and a colossal waste of taxpayer time and moneyand none too diplomatic or bright--but, when you really get down to it,

Wait. What was that one about Yemen again?

[ProfessionalLeftist]

13. They're just pissed off because they got caught

in all their lies and pretenses. Too bad so sad. Do they have any clue how churlish and schoolyard-bullyish this looks at this point? Or, do they just not care? I suspect the latter.

[thunder rising]

16. I Spartacus ... me Thunder Rising stole the cables!

[yurbud]

18. such a person would only have to request a jury trial and the whole thing would go away.

[No Elephants]

23. Self delete. wrong spot

[Demstud]

26. As they should

Most of these leaks have nothing to do with U.S. abuses of power. I support the release of documents exposing corruption or coverups of illegal acts, not those that hurt legitimate diplomacy efforts. Asange shouldn't be held responsible, he's not a U.S. citizen and it's not his job to keep our secrets. I don't THINK he committed any crime. But whoever gave him these documents should absolutely be prosecuted for treason. This was not an expose of war crimes.

[ronnie624]

27. The entire War on Terror™

is a result of the corruption of the U.S. government by fascist and corporatist forces. War without end Is a boondoggle for military contractors and a means for imposing a national security state. In my opinion, there is no basis for legitimacy.