Monday, November 29, 2010

Can we get the Wikileaks' deal?

Let me get this straight...

If you are a law-abiding, patriotic American, who has done nothing to harm your country; on the contrary, you are prepared to make sacrifices to help your country (example: you go along quietly with whatever security measures the government comes up with)...

You get treated like a convicted felon in a super-max prison (with invasive body searches).

If you steal and then publish the nation's secrets, the nation's diplomatic messages, which at least embarrass the United States, and more likely, cause real harm to our alliances and to our effectiveness in defeating our enemies...

You get a stern letter from the State Department.

Really? How do we citizens get that deal?

1 comment:

Greta said...

The issue for me in why such information was avaialable to some private sitting in Afghanistan. This type of information should be shared with about 10 people at the top. Of course the higher up you go, the less they seem to do to check up on your background. I think anyone running for President or VP should have to have extensive background checks just on the basis that they will have access to information of the most top secret nature. Same with Senators and congressmen. But at least protect this stuff far more than what seems like they were doing. Hillary should have to answer some very tough questions.

My understanding is that the private is being held and probably will face the major brunt of the charges which is probably correct for doing what he did, but somehow, someone else far higher up should be called out and fired if not put in jail for this mess.