Death to traitors… (NPR) – Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, told WHMI, a Michigan radio station, that Pfc. Bradley Manning should be executed if he did, in fact, leak classified documents and video to WikiLeaks. “If they won’t charge him with treason, they ought to charge him with murder,” Rogers said yesterday. The host of the program asked the congressman if treason during wartime is a capital offense, punishable by the death penalty. “Yes,” Rogers said. “And I would support it 100 percent.” According to The New York Times, “Manning with disclosing a classified video of an American helicopter attack to WikiLeaks, as well as more than 150,000 classified diplomatic cables.” Military officials said Friday that the private was also the main suspect in the disclosure to WikiLeaks of more than 90,000 classified documents about the Afghan war, some of which were published this week by The New York Times, the German magazine Der Spiegel and the British newspaper The Guardian. In the interview, which WHMI has posted in its entirety, he said that there is “a culture of disclosure,” which encourages leaks, is “a growing and serious problem.” According to Rogers, “it’s hard to make a decision based on one piece of the puzzle, but they do it often.”
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GOP Congressman: If WikiLeaks Leaker Manning Is Guilty, He Should Be Executed…
Death to traitors… (NPR) – Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, told WHMI, a Michigan radio station, that Pfc. Bradley Manning should be executed if he did, in fact, leak classified documents and video to WikiLeaks. “If they won’t charge him with treason, they ought to charge him with murder,” Rogers said yesterday. The host of the program asked the congressman if treason during wartime is a capital offense, punishable by the death penalty. “Yes,” Rogers said. “And I would support it 100 percent.” According to The New York Times, “Manning with disclosing a classified video of an American helicopter attack to WikiLeaks, as well as more than 150,000 classified diplomatic cables.” Military officials said Friday that the private was also the main suspect in the disclosure to WikiLeaks of more than 90,000 classified documents about the Afghan war, some of which were published this week by The New York Times, the German magazine Der Spiegel and the British newspaper The Guardian. In the interview, which WHMI has posted in its entirety, he said that there is “a culture of disclosure,” which encourages leaks, is “a growing and serious problem.” According to Rogers, “it’s hard to make a decision based on one piece of the puzzle, but they do it often.”
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GOP Congressman: If WikiLeaks Leaker Manning Is Guilty, He Should Be Executed…
Filed under: Iraq , Scandal , Investigations , Obama Administration , Afghanistan , Military , WikiLeaks The suspected leaker is moved from Kuwait to Quantico, Va., while the Army pursues a probe of the disclosure of secret Afghan war documents.
President Obama’s campaign promised transparency before he reached the Oval Office.
Unfortunately, when he made the transition from candidate to president, he checked transparency at the door. You would almost get the impression that President Obama hated transparency given the amount of times he has chosen not to be transparent.
Some examples:
On healthcare “Obama skipped past a broken promise from his campaign — to have the negotiations for health care legislation broadcast on C-SPAN “so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies.” Instead, Democrats in the White House and Congress have conducted the usual private negotiations, making multibillion-dollar deals with hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and other stakeholders behind closed doors. Nor has Obama lived up consistently to his pledge to ensure that legislation is posted online for five days before it’s acted upon.”
Let the sun shine in on a few more of President Transparency’s glowing first year:
