Look Who Has Developed A Patriotic Spine

By Semperpapa

The following was a statement from California U.S. Senator Diane Feinstein:

When WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange released his latest document trove—more than 250,000 secret State Department cables—he intentionally harmed the U.S. government. The release of these documents damages our national interests and puts innocent lives at risk. He should be vigorously prosecuted for espionage.

The law Mr. Assange continues to violate is the Espionage Act of 1917. That law makes it a felony for an unauthorized person to possess or transmit "information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation."

The Espionage Act also makes it a felony to fail to return such materials to the U.S. government. Importantly, the courts have held that "information relating to the national defense" applies to both classified and unclassified material. Each violation is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

No doubt aware of this law, and despite firm warnings, Mr. Assange went ahead and released the cables on Nov. 28.

Sure I welcome the liberal leftist senator’s stand against a declared enemy of America, but I find it somewhat disingenuous.

Where was the good senator when the NY Times reported that our Special Forces was tracking Osama bin Laden via the terrorist use of his cell phone? We were just about to bag the POS when the story was published, resulting in the al Qaeda dude to stop his use of that form of communication and escape.

And where was the old battleaxe’s outrage when Assange released secret documents about our troops operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan?

Those documents might have caused casualties for our Armed Forces in theater, and yet there was not much hoopla from Diane or any of the other progressives.

Now that the latest leak is embarrassing for the Obama crowd, suddenly Sen. Feinstein is developing a patriotic spine and bringing up the Espionage Act.

As long as the document dump affected the Bush administration and the United States Armed Forces, silence was king, as long as a political advantage could be had.

But let the criticism be directed against the progressive losers of our government and suddenly we should go all out and take care of it. Maybe we should send some Special Forces to snatch the scum bag in England and take it back to the US for trial.

Sorry, maybe cynicism has gotten the best of me, but considering the Left attitude toward our Armed Forces and their bloody involvement in two wars, I do not get a warm and fuzzy feeling from the timeliness of progressive outrage.

Assange has, at every point of his document dump, aimed at inflicting harm to the United States. That in the past it had been politically convenient while the latest is not only embarrassing, but politically damaging for the Regime, is the demonstration of the immorality of the Left.

Just my thoughts!