McConnell: WikiLeaks Head a High-Tech Terrorist

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is calling the founder of the online site WikiLeaks a "high-tech terrorist" for releasing classified material from the U.S. government.

McConnell said that the online release of secret diplomat exchanges has done "enormous damage" to the country and to its relationship with its allies.

McConnell told NBC's "Meet the Press" that he hopes WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be prosecuted for the disclosures.

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And he says that if it's found that Assange hasn't violated the law, then the law should be changed.

Of Assange, McConnell says, "I think the man is a high-tech terrorist."


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[emwede_de]

This is the day where freedom of speech becomes terrorism in the eyes of the USA.

Actually I hoped that me and my children would not live anymore when this sort of what I believe is fashism, enters the world.

Now we live!

Now we fight!

Fight for fredom of speech and so even more for wikileaks!

I did quit paypal and amazon acounts this morning and ask anyone who's interested in freeedom of speech to do so too.

I will not pay any Christmas gifts nor anything paying by mastercard anymore and ask anyone interested in freedom of speech to do so as well.

My children an I did donate half of the budget we had for christmas gifts to wikileaks and ask anyone to do so as well.

[Hosheen]

If you are replying to me, I suggest you note the line where I stated, "I am not a professional terrorist." But for idiots like you, insults and tearing down others is far easier than thinking or trying to improve yourself.

Air travel safety can be improved far beyond the nothing system in place now and at a fraction of the cost. The only flaws in a better system is that it is too cheap and would not provide employment for the hopeless morons in the TSA.

[documemts]

...Takes a terrorist to know a terrorist.

[noloyalisti]

Well this plastic faced extremist wacko guy should know. He was a huge supporter of the Bushoccio Terrorist Cell that ran (into the ground) America (along with their giant corporate masters) for 8 years.

[Blosc27]

Obama will give Assange a medal for harming America.

[morgana99]

uh... yeah, fella.

[Davidccccc]

McConnell is a SABOTEUR. McConnell openly declared his priority is to SUBVERT America's interests in the interest of getting rid of the President of the United States. Asange is simply an INFORMER doing the job the so-called FREE-PRESS was SUPPOSED to be doing.

[carol444]

WikiLeaks has done nothing but show the TOTAL INCOMPETENCE of Hillary Clinton and the entire State Dept. The fact that all these JERKS in Congress and wanta-be's like Huckabee are running around half-cocked saying the U.S. needs to murder the man just show what kind of people we have running things in D.C. I certainly WILL NOT vote for Huckabee or his kind who are always trying to "shut out the TRUTH".

As Americans we should be standing up for THE TRUTH (in fact DEMANDING it) instead of letting these D.C. vermin cover up their crimes. I am totally disgusted with HILLARY's demanding her state dept employees spy on U.N. personnel. Isn't that what the CIA is for?

We have a totally incompetent bunch of JERKS in unnecessary/obsolete Departments in Washington that need to be scrapped. Yet, all of a sudden (forget the past 2 years of SPEND, SPEND, SPEND SOME MORE), the deficit is an issue. FIRST THING THEY WANT TO CUT is Social Security that people have paid into all their lives. Yet Obama and Michelle can go on BILLION DOLLAR JAUNTS TO MUMBAI AND INDIA, DATES IN NY, EVERY OTHER WEEK VACATIONS. ENOUGH!

NONE OF THE FEDERAL DEPTS ARE DOING THEIR JOBS: DOJ, FBI, EDUCATION, ENERGY, HOMELAND SECURITY, and on and on. EVEN THE PENTAGON COMPTROLLER "LOSES" 4 TRILLION just prior to 911 (no investigation, no prosecution). Keep in mind that this Comptroller was Jewish and owned a million dollar company manufacturing airplane REMOTE CONTROLS. Last year the Pentagon "lost" another 8 Billion, and they lost planeloads of cash in Iraq, not to mention all the funds in the Iraqi banks they took over.

[Norwegianbear]

The sad part of this whole affair is that it proves that our government is unable to keep confidential information confidential, and that goes for your medical records also as soon as Mr Obama assembles his national health care database. I have the feeling most of you commenting on this blog voted for that one!

[irreverent1-2009]

Seems to me this whole affair is a direct result of the Patriot Act engineered by who else but, Bush, Cheney, and Rove.

[abbe91]

McConnell knows very well that a foreigner living abroad is not subject to US law. He knows very well that repealing healthcare reform is not a promise republicans can keep. Same thing for illegal immigration amnesty. This is just a political game.