That really does seem to be Sarah Palin’s main appeal, as in this tweet, where she asks why the U.S. government can’t stop Wikileaks’ “treasonous acts” the way she “recently won in court to stop my book “America by Heart” from being leaked[.]”
“Right!”
Why can’t the U.S. government be as security-conscious as Palin and her publisher, who’s book … um, was also leaked and therefore exposed to millions of people in an unauthorized manner? Hunh? Hunh? What’s up with that?
Why doesn’t the U.S. government just, like, sue Assange or something, so all those diplomatic communications can be un-leaked, and then everyone could just un-read the documents?
She’s on a roll here, people. From her Facebook page, on the same subject (via Justin Elliott at Salon):
[T]he latest round of publications of leaked classified U.S. documents through the shady organization called Wikileaks raises serious questions about the Obama administration’s incompetent handling of this whole fiasco.
First and foremost, what steps were taken to stop Wikileaks director Julian Assange from distributing this highly sensitive classified material especially after he had already published material not once but twice in the previous months? Assange is not a “journalist,” any more than the “editor” of al Qaeda’s new English-language magazine Inspire is a “journalist.” He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands. His past posting of classified documents revealed the identity of more than 100 Afghan sources to the Taliban. Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al Qaeda and Taliban leaders?
First, one of Steve M.’s readers, in comments:
Do you suppose that Republicans actually think that citizens from other countries are required to demonstrate loyalty to the US or they will be tried for treason?
Then, Justin:
It’s first worth noting that there is no evidence that Assange has “blood on his hands.” In a review of a previous round of leaks on Afghanistan, the Pentagon found no evidence that anyone had been endangered.
But more important: Palin is advocating that Assange be pursued like an al-Qaida operative. In the current context, it’s not unreasonable to interpret that to mean he should be assassinated.
And Palin’s problem with that would be?
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