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By: kowalski (Diary)  |  July 26th, 2010 at 05:08 PM  | 

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For any of you who thought that today wasn’t one of the most important days in our history, I’d like to remind you: 

Today was the day that we officially allowed a foreigner based in Sweden and other countries to use the Internet to influence American foreign policy through the widespread distribution of secret documents.  This wasn’t a small disbursal of a paragraph or two, it was an almost verbatim expurgation of ***THOUSANDS*** of documents to the entire world, led by an organization run by a single individual. 

I don’t know whether anyone here really understands what that means.  I know that it means as a matter of practical policy if not fact, that the foreign policy of the United States is now being influenced and in many cases led by decisions of a guy named Julian Assange.   One person, unelected.  Traveling around Europe and hobnobbing at Oxford.  Is deciding when to release secret documents owned by the United States of America, to everyone in the world.

We should be at war over this right now.  In a more honorable time in our nation’s history we WOULD have gone to war over it. 

I think it should be recorded for posterity that it was under the Obama Administration, elected in no small part because of its stated intention to be the “most transparent Administration in history”, that these classified documents have become public. 

In the past month I’ve been watching this story and I can’t see anything the Obama Administration did to prevent the release of these Secret materials, even though they knew that Assange had them.  Since they didn’t, one can only conclude that the Obama Administration wanted them to be released to the world.   They certainly didn’t do anything concrete to prevent it, based on any reports I’ve read in the news media.

In my mind, we should impeach the President for not protecting the information that he surely knew Julian Assange was in possession of.

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  • JSobieski

    The number of outrageous things that happen each and every day are simply too numerous to comment on. Definitely scary stuff. If I didn’t believe in God, I would be crippled with depression. As it is, I don’t do so well . . .

    When did the percentage of Americans who think America is not worth defending go up from de minimis to something in the 30% range?

    How can the fact that 26% of US citizens think 9/11 was an inside job be the headline each and every day?

    Many of us are simply spoiled brats with no real experience with ongoing systematic hardship. That omission is about to be remedied. . ..

  • kowalski

    I don’t want to pile on Redstate, but there’s a real question of priorties and scale that I have to bring up here. While some people at Redstate are leading the charge against the NRA for a rumored endorsement of Harry Reid, the crickets have been chirping all day long about the largest release of Secret documents in our nation’s history under the Obama Administration’s watch.

    Maybe they’re just too shocked to comment. Maybe they haven’t gotten their minds around the fact that our foreign policy is now being led by a blonde emo in London running his servers in Sweden. Their criticism of the NRA is inside the lines, but what the heck is their silence on this matter? It’s ten thousand times more important.

    Everyone knew this was coming, even halfway-interested people just watching the news. Certainly Obama knew it was coming, and he did nothing concrete to prevent it, so far as I can tell.

    If that isn’t an impeachable offense, what is? Failing to even ATTEMPT to prevent the release of classified documents when the President absolutely must have known that they were on the verge of release, and even knew the name and location of the person who was going to do it? What is that?

    I think it’s TREASON.

    • JSobieski

      and it is hard to focus on so many things at the same time.

      Nobody thought the French army (the largest standing army of a democratic nation at the outset of WWII) could possibly fold within DAYS of a German advance, and yet it happened. History is filled with such tails. God save this Republic, man’s best hope for peace.

      Europe finally got what it wanted, a US that is focused largely within its own borders. Of course, thats also what all of the thug-ocracies want as well.

    • eastbaylarry

      But what to do? Your suggestion of impeachment, as delightfull as that would be, is not going anywhere unless we can get supermajorities in both houses this year. Not likely.

      It IS treason. But we must keep our heads cool and plan our strategy without haste or emotion. Otherwise they win.

    • Jack_Savage

      But that cat was let out of the bag by the Washington Post and the NYT years ago.

      One thing I fault GWB for is what I regarded at the time to be a lackluster response to all the classified information that was leaked. There are no defense secrets since the communist left scumbag democrats have decided to hold their nose and join the military. It has become one happy little social experiment for the higher ups, and Obama (and the country) is reaping what the left has been sowing for so long.

      Of course this puts soldiers in danger. So do politicians campaigning against a war they voted for in order to score political points and thus emboldening the enemy. No big difference in my view.

      Sure, it is despicable, but what more can we expect from the imbecile communists running Washington these days? I think that treason has become so nauseatingly commonplace among the left that it almost provokes a yawn any more.

      Obama would have to put on a Palestinian headscarf and mow down fifty American soldiers during a visit to Iraq for the media to even begin to pay attention, and even then they would say that the racist right made him snap.

      • kowalski

        It’s ILLEGAL. It’s a crime, and not a trivial one. I just read that Robert Gibbs met with reporters at the New York Times last week to discuss the publication of these documents. Not to stop them, not to warn them that the Department of Justice would arrest them if they published this classified material – but to make requests and suggestions to them about how to better go about it, since he wasn’t going to try to stop them.

        Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., though, suggested the release could lead to a change in policy. He said in a written statement that “however illegally” the documents were released, they raise “serious questions” about U.S. policy toward the region.

        No less a figure than John Kerry himself has said it was a crime, but they’re ignoring the crime. On purpose. In broad daylight.

        So we have the spokesperson for the President of the United States meeting with news organizations – not to stop them from breaking the law, not to enforce the President’s authority and obligation to uphold the law – but to give them pointers on how to do it in such a way that nobody gets arrested.

        I don’t know how anyone can look at what has happened and what is still happening and not get the sense that the laws in this society mean nothing to the people whose responsibility – whose sworn duty – it is to uphold them. Except when they want to. And only when they want to.

        That’s tyranny, folks. It’s not a government.

        Does it mean that everything is just up for grabs now? That the statutes criminalizing the release of Secret and Top Secret classified material aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on? That all of the 854,000 odd people mentioned by the Washington Post as possessing Secret or Top Secret security clearances should just figure, “Ah, what the heck?”

        Why did we bother deporting the Russian spies? Why not just give them security clearances, an encrypted satellite uplink, and send them to work at the NSA with papers that will let them know whatever darn well ask? It sure wasn’t worth the expense of catching and deporting them.

        Does it mean that everyone with a security clearance should just feel free to start posting materials to Facebook, because the President simply doesn’t care to enforce the law? That the people at Los Alamos working in the X division can just start disseminating the specifications of our nuclear weapons on DVDs at the local rave without fear of reprisal?

        Where does it stop when the President of the United States doesn’t lift a finger to prevent the global publication of America’s classified material and sends his spokesperson to news organizations to offer them a guidebook?

        OK I’m done with the rant, but I don’t see any other way to look at this.

        • Jack_Savage

          But we are depending on a free press not beholden to the administration and Republicans with courage. The odds are stacked very, very much against us.

  • reddog53

    Ever since JournoList, it becomes harder to believe that the President’s minions aren’t spending all their time coordinating these things….but sometimes I think that credits them with too much intelligence and competence.

    It’s a bogey rich environment, for sure, and at a time when most would just like a little escape from the summer heat and other cares of the day.

    Simply amazing that they did nothing to prevent this from happening. Why are we paying for a Cyber War Command if we’re not going to use it?

    • snowshooze

      And we need it televised.
      and our thanks to wikileaks for helping expose them.

  • cactusjack

    If you can only take one house, in order effetively to stop or restrain a Mad Emperor President, my money is on the House. here’s why: Firstly, a new Republican Speaker gets to appoint the new chair(wo)men of the House Rules and Judiciary Committees. These, folks, are where articles of impeachment are drafted and filed under the US Constitution – not in the Senate. No we cannot realistically remove him from office, that would ultimately require, after house vote to impeach, a Senate with spine to convict, and I’m not holding my breath whoever’s in charge there. But, 0 really has done things now that are tantamount to, in the broad sense, high crimes and misdemeanors the Framers intended. Articles really can be filed and voted on. One impeachment trial , whatever the result, can make for a very, very bad day (lasting a year) for the 0, hamstring his operations and divert his personal funds. While his Chicago rat friends scamper away until it’s over. It’s the closest thing we have to a vote of no confidence & fall of a government in the parliamentary system, and it was intended to be such by the Framers. Second, budget originates in the House of course, and they can play havoc on his social agenda programs so far as de-funding.