Throw the WikiBook at them

Charles Krauthammer "Assange has done more damage to the United States than all six of those Germans combined. Putting U.S. secrets on the Internet, a medium of universal dissemination new in human history, requires a reconceptualization of sabotage and espionage - and the laws to punish and prevent them. Where is the Justice Department?"....
"Want to prevent this from happening again? Let the world see a man who can't sleep in the same bed on consecutive nights, who fears the long arm of American justice. I'm not advocating that we bring out of retirement the KGB proxy who, on a London street, killed a Bulgarian dissident with a poisoned umbrella tip. But it would be nice if people like Assange were made to worry every time they go out in the rain."

Krauthammer on the government's wishy-washy response to the Wikileaks scandal  "If we get hit by a terror attack because a country had stopped cooperating with us fearing exposure, we shouldn't blame Julian Assange. We should blame those who did nothing to prevent him from damaging our security. "
Obama was molded and mentored by people who hate America fully as much as does Julian Assange.


http://www.worldmag.com/editorialcartoons/



Wikileaks: Lebanon defense minister 'offered invasion advice for Israel'

Haaretz "Lebanon's Defense Minister offered advice on how Israel could defeat Hezbollah if a new war erupted on Israel's northern border, a classified U.S. diplomatic cable shows.

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"In a future replay of its 2006 invasion of southern Lebanon, Israel should take care not to antagonize local Christian communities, Elias Murr told the United States embassy in Beirut, according to a document released by the WikiLeaks group. "

 Release of this information alone will guarantee that Wikileaks will have blood on it's hands.

 Dead man walking  :"Lebanon's Defense Minister offered advice on how Israel could defeat Hezbollah if a new war erupted on Israel's northern border, a classified U.S. diplomatic cable shows."

http://townhall.com/cartoons/cartoonist/MichaelRamirez



The Senate’s Secret Santa Agenda

Heritage  "According to Gallup, only 31 percent of Americans believe the best approach for dealing with the economy is raising taxes. The vast majority of Americans (62 percent) believe that the best way to fix the economy is either through deficit reduction (39 percent) or lower taxes (23 percent). But neither of those items is on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D–NV) agenda.
"So what legislative gifts is Reid planning on giving the American people this Christmas? No one knows for sure, but Reid’s wish list is long."
Hat tip to Rush Limbaugh.

That Israeli Fire

First Foreign Planes Arrive in Israel to Help Put Out Fires That Killed 41  "Firefighters are still trying to contain the blaze, which police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said was the worst in Israel’s history. Most of the 41 confirmed dead were killed yesterday in a bus carrying prison guards on their way to help evacuate a prison endangered by the flames, Rosenfeld said."

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Two arson suspects apprehended in Carmel forest     "The suspects were allegedly attempting to rekindle a fire in the forest with the use of Molotov cocktails." Jerusalem Post

Carmel inferno proves Israel can't afford war with Iran  "Just like Israel's army in the 1973 Yom Kippur war, the emergency services were wholly unprepared to handle a shock on this scale."
Article and photo from Haaretz

Scotland Yard Will Arrest Assange Friday

Verum Serum  "Scotland Yard detectives were last night preparing to detain the 39-year-old over claims of rape and sexual assault in Sweden."

http://townhall.com/cartoons/cartoonist/ChipBok
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Wikileaks, The Facts: Part I  "Israeli officials told American government officials:

•Israel is not in a position to underestimate Iran and be surprised like the United States was on 9/11.

•Israel and the United States need to do more to create regime change in Iran.

•IDF operations against Hamas in the West Bank are preventing the terrorist group from taking over the Fatah-controlled territory.

•Israel tried to coordinate Operation Cast Lead with Abu Mazen and Hosni Mubarak."

Wikileaks, The Responsibility: Part II  "Crazy? Maybe. Self-serving? Definitely. Manning says he is talking to Lamo because he "needs to try and figure out how I could get my side of the story out... before everything was twisted around to make me look like Nidal Hassan." He doesn't have to be Nidal Hassan; being Bradley Manning is damning enough.
There is so much more to this story. Who thinks the government will go after all of it - including the hardware, software and, most important, human lapses in the Department of Defense - and who thinks it will just try to hang Manning from the nearest tree?"
Parts 1 and 2 from The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs



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Sen. Jim DeMint  "Many of us have been concerned that the START Treaty would weaken our national security, and recent revelations of previously undisclosed talks with Russia on missile defense and movement of Russian tactical nuclear warheads only raise more questions that must be answered. I’ve asked for the full negotiating records, as have been provided to the Senate on previous treaties, but the Obama administration has continually denied that request and promised that missile defense was never part of the negotiations with Russia. But we have now learned that the State Department did in fact meet with Russia to specifically discuss missile defense, after months of denying these discussions ever took place."

Obama & Co., Growing Up Fast

Victor Davis Hanson  "Obama and his EU counterparts are learning that high-minded adolescence makes for bad governance. But it’s an expensive lesson." Emphasis added because I love the term "high-minded" adolescent. Hail to our chief.
...."Behind the recent news of massive debt, looming defaults, WikiLeaks, the administration’s about-face in the war on terror, and the implosion of the European Union is a reminder that progressivism, at least as it operates today, is a sort of high-minded adolescence, as sophisticated in faculty-lounge repartee as it is near-suicidal in its actual implementation." And on most TV talk shows, I might add.

Wave goodbye to Internet freedom

Washington Times  "The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is poised to add the Internet to its portfolio of regulated industries. The agency's chairman, Julius Genachowski, announced Wednesday that he circulated draft rules he says will "preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet." No statement could better reflect the gulf between the rhetoric and the reality of Obama administration policies."  Via Drudge