Prosecute Assange Under the Espionage Act

[mudplanet]

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal claiming he should be prosecuted under the Espionage Act because he "intentionally harmed the US government."

"Mr. Assange claims to be a journalist and would no doubt rely on the First Amendment to defend his actions," Sen. Feinstein wrote. "But he is no journalist: He is an agitator intent on damaging our government, whose policies he happens to disagree with, regardless of who gets hurt."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703989004575653280626335258.html

Is it an illegal war and crime against humanity or just "policies he happens to disagree with"?

"Regardless of who gets hurt"?????? What planet has this woman been living on? Oh, now I remember. The planet where America gets to decide whose life is important and whose life is expendable. The one where 5000 dead Americans are far more important than 1 million dead camel jockeys and rag heads (and their children).

[Newsjock]

1. California needs to have two Democratic senators

Not just Boxer.

[xchrom]

2. ...

:spray: witty and truthful.

[mudplanet]

8. I'm really curious just how isolated from real people and the real world

you have to be to come to the conclusion she did and then to actually sit down and write a fucking public statement for publication.

One way to get that way is to rely on the WSJ for information.

[whatchamacallit]

3. Fuck her!

metaphorically of course.

[qb]

4. Ugly

just ugly.

[MNBrewer]

5. Too bad it was decided to not investigate and prosecute the war criminals

moving forward is SOOOOOO much more important.

[wtmusic]

6. Assange: 0 deaths; War Feinstein supported: 500,000+ deaths

Regardless of who gets hurt? Let's talk, Dianne...

[City Lights]

7. Stuff a sock in it, DiFi!

:thumbsdown: to DiFi the DINO.

[WinkyDink]

9. What makes you think the "5000 dead Americans" count for anything with TPTB?

[Celtic Raven]

20. It's not like they're the children of the rich

which we all have to defend & protect from every little bump in the road.

The "5000 dead Americans" are expendable middle class & poor children.

:grr:

[lunatica]

10. Feinstein is probably terrified that Assange will uncover her husband's activities

and her enabling them with her legislation and influence. Here's just one of her backroom deals from April 2009...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/21/senate-husbands-firm-cashes-in-on-crisis/

On the day the new Congress convened this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that had just awarded her husband's real estate firm a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms.

Mrs. Feinstein's intervention on behalf of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was unusual: the California Democrat isn't a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs with jurisdiction over FDIC; and the agency is supposed to operate from money it raises from bank-paid insurance payments - not direct federal dollars.

Documents reviewed by The Washington Times show Mrs. Feinstein first offered Oct. 30 to help the FDIC secure money for its effort to stem the rise of home foreclosures. Her letter was sent just days before the agency determined that CB Richard Ellis Group (CBRE) - the commercial real estate firm that her husband Richard Blum heads as board chairman - had won the competitive bidding for a contract to sell foreclosed properties that FDIC had inherited from failed banks.

[hunter]

18. She's part of the war machine and she's afraid. Good.

:thumbsup: wikileaks

[ipaint]

11. Her husband landed hundreds of millions of dollars for work in iraq and kabul.

Those who hoot and holler the loudest about these leaks are the ones with the most $$$$ to lose should the idea of transparency take hold.

Watch them squeal.

[lunatica]

13. See reply #10 above for more on Feinstein's back room deals

[ipaint]

16. Parasites picking the carcass of workers. nt

[sarcasmo]

12. She needs to go.

[GodlessBiker]

14. Stop being an asshole, Dianne.

[Shining Jack]

15. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)

In her case D-CA means Demented Creepy Asshole. :(

[Puregonzo1188]

17. Do any of these people have any knowledge of who was actually tried under the Espionage Act?

I believe my signature gives away one.

[Poboy]

19. The guy who exposed the current Admin's active participation in a

cover-up, and prevention of prosecution for horrific CRIMES, is the problem.

These people need to be taken DOWN!