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Sarah Palin said today that he should be hunted down like Osama bin laden.

by chadp 16y ago

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igravious 16y ago
Really? You mean with a complete and utter lack of success? Zing! edit: you know, when someone who is cited as a possible presidential candidate reflexively reaches for an extra-judicial solution to resolve the releasing of state information by a foreign whistleblower then ... what? i don't know, but it's very telling. the road back towards the rule of law is going to be long and difficult one.
- davidcuddeback 16y ago
  Last night, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a press meeting that Wikileaks should be labeled a terrorist organization. I find it frightening that the government has reached a point that they will label anyone they don't like as a terrorist so that they can bypass the legal system. I didn't realize that exposing information could be an act of terror, but Clinton would like to have you believe so. Edit: I did a quick Google search to find a news piece about this. The first one I found was this: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/gop-rep-wikileaks-deemed-foreign-terrorist-organization/ http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/gop-rep-wikileaks-deemed-... That article tells us who lobbied Clinton to label Wikileaks as terrorists, but it also references the Pentagon Papers case, which I cited from in a comment in another discussion about Wikileaks (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1948911 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1948911).
  - staunch 16y ago
    "Last night, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a press meeting that Wikileaks should be labeled a terrorist organization." [citation needed]
  - joevandyk 16y ago
    So, Clinton did not say in a press meeting that Wikileaks should be labeled a terrorist organization?
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    - davidcuddeback 16y ago
      I saw her say it on the news last night. I just spent a few minutes searching for the clip to post it here, but I've been unable to find it. I would think something like that would make bigger headlines, so I'm willing to admit I might have been wrong about Clinton saying that---perhaps I misunderstood something I saw last night. But in my searches, I did uncover a lot of press (such as the one I linked to in my post above) about other members of the government lobbying to have Wikileaks declared a terrorist organization. It's not quite as frightening as having the Secretary of State say it, but it still serves my original point. It will be a dangerous precedent if the government goes through with what the congressmen are asking for.

Sarah Palin said today that he should be hunted down like Osama bin laden.

by chadp 16y ago

Sarah Palin said today that he should be hunted down like Osama bin laden.

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igravious 16y ago

Really? You mean with a complete and utter lack of success? Zing! edit: you know, when someone who is cited as a possible presidential candidate reflexively reaches for an extra-judicial solution to resolve the releasing of state information by a foreign whistleblower then ... what? i don't know, but it's very telling. the road back towards the rule of law is going to be long and difficult one.

davidcuddeback 16y ago
Last night, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a press meeting that Wikileaks should be labeled a terrorist organization. I find it frightening that the government has reached a point that they will label anyone they don't like as a terrorist so that they can bypass the legal system. I didn't realize that exposing information could be an act of terror, but Clinton would like to have you believe so. Edit: I did a quick Google search to find a news piece about this. The first one I found was this: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/gop-rep-wikileaks-deemed-foreign-terrorist-organization/ http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/gop-rep-wikileaks-deemed-... That article tells us who lobbied Clinton to label Wikileaks as terrorists, but it also references the Pentagon Papers case, which I cited from in a comment in another discussion about Wikileaks (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1948911 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1948911).
- staunch 16y ago
  "Last night, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a press meeting that Wikileaks should be labeled a terrorist organization." [citation needed]
- joevandyk 16y ago
  So, Clinton did not say in a press meeting that Wikileaks should be labeled a terrorist organization?
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  - davidcuddeback 16y ago
    I saw her say it on the news last night. I just spent a few minutes searching for the clip to post it here, but I've been unable to find it. I would think something like that would make bigger headlines, so I'm willing to admit I might have been wrong about Clinton saying that---perhaps I misunderstood something I saw last night. But in my searches, I did uncover a lot of press (such as the one I linked to in my post above) about other members of the government lobbying to have Wikileaks declared a terrorist organization. It's not quite as frightening as having the Secretary of State say it, but it still serves my original point. It will be a dangerous precedent if the government goes through with what the congressmen are asking for.