I am starting to feel that if we imitated Mossad and did a Mahmoud al-Mabhouh job on traitors such as Private First Class Bradley Manning (who deserves the death penalty) and Julian Assange – we would not have these problems. How many Americans and friends of America will die because of narcissistic left-wing saboteurs? These people have blood on their hands and will laugh all the way to their next book and/or movie deal. This all started back in 1971 with Daniel Ellsberg’s theft of the Pentagon papers. Somehow the Left, which has no problems about leaking information which will kill American soldiers and those who help us, gets their knickers in a knot when Valerie Plame is “outed” as a CIA operative (and that was no secret and the one who “outed” her was Colin Powell flunky and progressive, Richard Armitage).
by Ralph Peters
Assange: WikiLeak founder puts thousands of lives at risk.The recent WikiLeaks debacle, which will result in American, allied and Afghan deaths, drives home how inadequate our antique laws on war are in the new millennium.
We live in a lawless age, when it comes to our security. A hypernarcissist such as WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange puts thousands of lives at risk by e-publishing classified documents, and we have no legal answer.
Every day, foreign powers and rogue players attack our nation’s computer networks, attempting to steal secrets, plant sleeper programs or just create havoc. We have no practical legal framework for counterattacks. We haven’t even decided when cyberattacks amount to acts of war.
Even regarding physical acts of terrorism, our laws lag grotesquely — hence the repeated delays in bringing the world’s most vicious butchers to trial.
It’s as if, in the age of the automobile, we relied on traffic laws from horse-and-buggy days. Absent appropriate legal codes, our government turns to lawyers without laws.
The lawyers, in turn, fish through laws governing yesteryear’s concerns — and apply them restrictively to keep their departments out of the headlines.
And the cyberassaults go on, 24/7. Security leaks haunt the Internet (and our amoral media). Terrorists kill, then sue us. In the first case, we take our beatings and slap on bandages. In the second, we huff, puff and do nothing. In the third case, an apprehended terrorist gets better medical care than an out-of-work American.
Even the civil laws and military codes we do have on the books are not enforced. If found guilty, that Army private who allegedly passed over 90,000 classified documents to WikiLeaks should get the “full Rosenberg,” a shortened life and a hot exit. Instead, he’ll do a few years at most — at most — then get a book contract. (Can’t wait for the movie!)
As for Julian Assange, who released a deluge of sensitive operational data to America’s enemies, he’ll probably pay no price at all for any deaths his actions cause. Instead, he’ll rake in speaking fees.
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When should a cyberattack trigger devastating retaliation? When can an Internet accomplice to terror be placed on a kill-or-capture list? What is the proper judicial forum for putting terrorists on trial? It’s the duty of Congress to decide.
To update an old line describing Pearl Harbor, “At cyberdawn, we slept.”
Read the rest here: The new Wiki warfare
Tags: Ralph Peters, wikileaks
