Right now the U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether Wikileaks and founder Julian Assange, violated criminal law in the massive release of classified State Department diplomatic cables, which would include possible charges under the Espionage Act.
The question That I have is why hasn't the federal government done more to shut down Wikileaks after it has already published more than a half million documents regarding the war in Iraq & Afghanistan.
Before Sundays release of classified State Department documents, Wikileaks released documents regarding U.S. efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, to include raw footage of a shooting video taken from a U.S. helicopter in Iraq. Unfortunately those conflicts were unpopular. Now all of a sudden everyone is in panic mode.
Why hasn't the federal government done more to shut down Wikileaks? Why haven't we pressured European governments, which host Wikileaks, to shut it down? We have stood up a U.S. Cyber Command for this very purpose, have they been tasked with shutting Wikileaks down? Have we put pressure on foreign governments to apprehend Julian Assage?
There are many answered questions, but I guess when it was directed only at U.S. operations in Iraq & Afghanistan, than somehow it's different. But now because it was directed at the State Department, now we have to get serious? Why did we wait until this incident to get serious?
NEXTGOV.COM has an article, http://cybersecurityreport.nextgov.com/2010/10/wikileaks_communications_infrastructure_attacked.php linking the financial company Moneybookers with WikiLeaks and their willingness to take donations for the site. Moneybookers has affiliations with Paypal and other US companies.
ReplyDeleteI have closed my account and will boycott Paypal by closing my merchant and credit card account. I really hopes this sends a message that many Americans see WikiLeaks as an enemy to our government. I, for one, will not support any company that has an association.