Treasury Urged To Take Action Against WikiLeaks

[kster]

By Juliana Gruenwald
January 12, 2011

House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King, R-N.Y., Wednesday urged Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to place the whistleblower website WikiLeaks and its founder on a U.S. government list that would ban people and companies in the United States from conducting business with both.

WikiLeaks has come under fire by lawmakers and some Obama administration officials for releasing classified and other sensitive U.S. government documents, including most recently thousands of State Department diplomatic cables.

In a letter, King called on Geithner to place WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange on Treasury's Specially Designated National and Blocked Persons List, which is maintained by the department's Office of Foreign Asset Control. The list includes such groups and invidusals as terrorists and narcotics traffickers, according to the State Department.

"The U.S. government simply cannot continue its ineffective piecemeal approach of responding in the aftermath of WikiLeaks' damage," King wrote. "The administration must act to disrupt the WikiLeaks enterprise. The U.S. government should be making every effort to strangle the viability of Assange's organization."



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[villager]

1. So does "conducting business" mean posting info they release

...since they're in the "business" of releasing information?

I swear to God, you start to think some small part of this administration is passably okay, and they can't wait to undercut the feeling.

[RKP5637]

3. It's a roller coaster ride. n/t

[mmonk]

8. I believe King is the one calling for Treasury.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

2. Can't handle the Truth?

[Hardrada]

4. The sooner all those cables are out the better and whatever else

he has. Don't give these bastards time to connive!

[glinda]

5. Agree. Smart observation.

[upi402]

6. As BushCo war criminals and looters sit by the pool

Justice delayed is DOJ denied US.

But they will run a whistle-blower down to the end of the earth.

[bhikkhu]

7. ...that's some fascist-sounding crap

I appreciate the message of the president this evening, but there is no unity while a big part of our hides under cover of secrecy and absolute power, and the rest may not question.

[MattBaggins]

9. King is such a dipshit moron

He doesn't think a single one of his stupid ideas through.

[jwirr]

10. That is right - protect big business at all costs. Get him before he

can release the BofA files, etc. :sarcasm: