Rep. Peter King (Rep., NY) has called the recent WikiLeaks “terrorism.” According to the New York Times, Sarah Palin called for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be hunted as an “anti-American operative with blood on his hands.” The leaker of the files should be executed, according to Mike Huckabee.
One of the documents leaked exposed the intense diplomatic pressure the U.S. brought to bear on Germany for trying to prosecute CIA operatives who kidnapped a German citizen, took him to a secret prison in Afghanistan, tortured him for months, and finally dropped him by a roadside in Albania. (The CIA evidently had mistaken him for another man with a similar name.)
Instead of all this anger directed at the messenger, shouldn’t we be a tad upset about what is done in our name. Kidnapping, secret prison, and torture by an agency of the U.S. government presumably acting on our behalf is not just reprehensible, it is evil. Let’s not shoot the messenger.
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