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Tucson Shooting Survivor: "It Looks Like Palin, Beck, Sharron Angle and the Rest Got Their First Target"
JUAN GONZALEZ : The youngest victim of the Arizona shooting rampage has been laid to rest. More than 2,000 people packed into a Tucson church, and hundreds more lined the road outside, to remember nine-year-old Christina Taylor Green. The third-grade student was born on September 11th, 2001.
Fox News editorial: WikiLeaks employees should be declared ‘enemy combatants’ | Raw Story
Leading the attack on whistleblower web site WikiLeaks, Fox News editorialist and former Bush-era US State Department official Christian Whiton said on Monday that the US should classify the proprietors of WikiLeaks as “enemy combatants,” opening up the possibility of “non-judicial actions” against them. “So far, the Obama administration appears to have been asleep at the wheel in responding to this,” he wrote for FoxNews.com on Monday. “The same is true of the Democratic-controlled Congress, which has no fewer than ten committees of jurisdiction that could be doing something about this—but which are not.” He proposed a number of actions the US could take to shut down the secret-spilling site for good: 1.Punish the Whistleblowers The Obama administration has already charged more people — six — under the Espionage Act for alleged mishandling of classified information than all past presidencies combined. (Prior to Obama, there were only three such cases in American history.) Kiriakou, in particular, is accused of giving information about the CIA’s torture programs to reporters two years ago.
The wretched mind of the American authoritarian - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
In case you didn't know, Assange is the Australian computer programmer behind WikiLeaks, a massive — and massively successful — effort to disclose secret or classified information. In a series of recent dumps, he unveiled thousands upon thousands of classified documents from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Military and other government officials insist that WikiLeaks is doing serious damage to American national security and is going to get people killed, including brave Iraqis and Afghans who've risked their lives and the lives of their families to help us. Even Assange agrees. He told the New Yorker earlier this year that he fully understands innocent people might die as a result of the "collateral damage" of his work and that WikiLeaks may have "blood on our hands." WikiLeaks is easily among the most significant and well-publicized breaches of American national security since the Rosenbergs gave the Soviets the bomb.
Why is Assange still alive? - Chicago Tribune
In her more than two years on the national stage, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has proven to be a master of attention-grabbing quotes and vivid images. As a result, she finds herself at the center of a political and media controversy - unfairly in the estimation of her allies - after Saturday's shootings in Tucson. The controversy, which may have caught the Republican by surprise, is the kind of test candidates commonly face in a presidential campaign. How she navigates it, several Republican strategists said Monday, could be a defining moment for her politically. What makes her challenge unique is that it comes as a result of a national tragedy in which there is no known connection between anything Palin said or did and the alleged actions of Jared Loughner, who is accused of fatally shooting six and severely wounding Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and 13 others.
Palin caught in crosshairs map controversy after Tucson shootings
Wikileaks today offered sympathy and condolences to the victims of the Tucson shooting together with best wishes for the recovery of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords, a democrat from Arizona's 8th district, was the target of a shooting spree at a Jan 8 political event in which six others were killed. Tucson Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, leading the investigation into the Gifford shooting, said that "vitriolic rhetoric" intended to "inflame the public on a daily basis ... has [an] impact on people, especially who are unbalanced personalities to begin with." Dupnik also observed that officials and media personalities engaging in violent rhetoric "have to consider that they have some responsibility when incidents like this occur and may occur in the future."
WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE 10 Jan 2010, 10:15 PM EST “WikiLeaks: treat incitement seriously or expec
Florida resident and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee yesterday called for the execution of the person responsible for leaking hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks. “Whoever in our government leaked that information is guilty of treason, and I think anything less than execution is too kind a penalty,” he said in an interview, a clip of which is posted on YouTube and which you can view in full after the jump. “They’ve put American lives at risk,” he continued, adding: They’ve put relationships that will take decades to rebuild at risk, and they knew full well that they were handling sensitive documents, they were entrusted and anyone who had access to that level of information was not only a person who understood what their rules were, but they also signed under oath a commitment that they would not violate it. They did.
Huckabee calls for execution of person who leaked diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks | Florida Independent: News. Politics. Media
Thank you, Tom [Perez], for your kind words and, especially, for your leadership of the Civil Rights Division. I also want to thank you and your team – as well as Richard [Toscano] and his colleagues in the Justice Management Division – for your work in bringing us all together. Thank you all for being here – especially our many distinguished guests and our keynote speaker, Marc Morial. Today, as we join together to reflect on – and to celebrate – the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we are also bound by a shared grief and painful sense of loss. This weekend, in an unspeakable tragedy, twenty individuals were shot in Tucson, Arizona, at a constituent meeting with Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Observance ProgramWashington, D.C. ~ Tuesda
Wikileaks Calls for Sarah Palin's Arrest
The official Twitter account for Wikileaks has posted a press release this evening drawing a comparison between the controversial rhetoric from public figures that some believe contributed to the attempted assassination on Saturday of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the even more explicit calls from public officials for violence against Wikileaks spokesperson Julien Assange and others. The organization called for public figures making such calls to violence to be arrested and charged with crimes. Assange is attributed the following quote in the release: "No organisation anywhere in the world is a more devoted advocate of free speech than Wikileaks but when senior politicians and attention seeking media commentators call for specific individuals or groups of people to be killed they should be charged with incitement -- to murder.Punish the Whistleblowers The Obama administration has already charged more people — six — under the Espionage Act for alleged mishandling of classified information than all past presidencies combined. (Prior to Obama, there were only three such cases in American history.)
What U.S. "justice" signifies around the world - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Anwar and Sarah and Nidal and Jared | MyFDL
An aspiring political figure with religious ties gathers a small following. For years they speak and the following grows. They speak in religious settings, they speak in political settings. Then an event catapults them to fame on the national scene. Their words reach a broader audience. Their speaking generates a larger following across the United States.President at a Memorial Service for the Victims of the Shooting in Tucson, Arizona | The White House
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