You surely will have no doubt where Barbara stands on the issue of what to do with Julian Assange after you've read this column! In another column that I posted just before this one, WorldNetDaily.com reported that Julian Assange may have been selling classified documents. To whom, we do not know - yet - but that story definitely reinforces Barbara's argument that Julian Assange and Pfc. Bradley Manning should be tried for TREASON, and if found guilty, face a firing squad as traitors.
RELATED STORY: WikiLeaks sold classified intel, claims website's co-founder
UPDATE:
Watch the following video starting at 4:38. It supports Barbara's contention that "We've got to show some guts and stop being intimidated my international slime and homegrown cowardice and sleaze.":
Not fearing the guy with a laptop and $35 website is REALLY cheap spin
WikiLeaks. It sounds like a new video game – aimed at prepubescent males.
It sounds like a rip-off of Wikipedia – an Internet, do it yourself, history of everything, but without verification.
WikiLeaks isn't any of that. It's the intentional release online of hundreds of thousands of highly classified government and military documents.
The name is a play on words – but it's neither a game nor a joke.
The release of those secret documents has worldwide security ramifications. Government informants are in danger, sources of information are lost, the enemy knows many of our plans and intentions and diplomats have seen their most private comments and assessments splashed across front pages.
While some regard the document dumps as merely spitting in the eye of the United States government, diplomacy and the military, what Julian Assange has done through his now notorious website is betray the United States, our State Department, military and our allies across the world.
The most recent documents posted contained personal comments among world leaders about each other, many of which were catty and personally demeaning. Others revealed information and contacts between diplomats never intended to be public. Some were innocuous; others were critical.
What WikiLeaks and Julian Assange have done is treason, and that also applies to American Pfc. Bradley Manning who stole documents and provided them to Assange. He clearly sold out the military, our country and our allies.
A breaking story yesterday (Sunday, 12/05/10) on WorldNetDaily.com is sure to shake things up in the way WikiLeaks and Julian Assange will be covered by the news media and what the various pundits will have to say about Assange's motives for what he is doing to America and the diplomatic world.
Asked specifically whether he was charging WikiLeaks with selling classified information and documents, Young replied, "Yes."
Klein then asked, "When you were at WikiLeaks initially, was your impression they were trying to sell information?"
Young responded, "Well, it only came up in the topic of raising $5 million the first year. That was the first red flag that I heard about. I thought that they were actually a public interest group up until then, but as soon as I heard that, I know that they were a criminal organization."
One of the early members and co-founders of the tight-knit, secretive WikiLeaks operation charged today that the website and its co-founder, Julian Assange, sold intelligence information the site had obtained.
John Young
John Young, whose name was listed as the public face of WikiLeaks in the site's original domain registration, also alleged that the website is a lucrative business.
Young said he left the site in 2007 due to concerns over its finances and that WikiLeaks was engaged in the selling of documents.
Young was speaking today to WND senior reporter Aaron Klein on Klein's radio program on New York's WABC Radio.
"I think it is a money-making operation, no doubt," Young said of WikiLeaks.
"It follows the model of a number of other business intelligence operations. Selling intelligence information is a very lucrative field, and so they are following that model, usually cloaked in some kind of public benefit," he told Klein.
"But they are far from being the only one that does that," Young added. "It's a well-known business model.
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