Assange has requested political asylum & is in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London

[sabrina 1]

213. Unbelievable.

No lives were put at risk. Gates confirmed this himself. Most of the documents were vetted by some of the world's largest News Organizations. The first dump was the only one that was not vetted although Wikeleaks asked the US Military to help with redactions before publishing. The USM refused. So had any lives been endangered, it would have been the fault of the USM. After the first dump, Wikileaks went to the press who had more staff to review the material so most of it WAS vetted.

Wikileaks like every other news organization, uses sources, often those sources are whistle-blowers. This is an undeniable right of the Fourth Estate not just in this country, but in every civilized country around the world. To charge a News Organization with spying and apply the death penalty for doing their job, for using sources every news agency uses, would put the US in the category of every dictatorship we so often condemn for doing the same thing.

I cannot believe that any American would support such a crime. And it would be a crime, a crime against the Constitution and would make a laughing stock of this country in the eyes of the world. More than that, it will become an international travesty and we can kiss all claims to being a democracy goodbye. When a nation starts convicting journalists of espionage, that is a sad day for democracy everywhere.