Should the WikiLeaks staff be prosecuted?

While US state department restricts employee access to secret files... you can be sure that the WikiLeaks' staff is busy poring through an unimaginable glut of our secret documents (I understand it's documents that are all recent and not years old).

The need to sort through it all was clarified by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assage: "To have impact, it needs to be easy for people to dive in and search it and get something out of it."

And it's not just U.S. documents as the Jerusalem Post has noted:

Assange noted that Wikileaks also has material on Russian companies and politicians, pharamceutical companies, industrial espionage by the US, the energy industry, environmental issues, and finance.

Staff problems have exacerbated the ongoing analysis of all this data including the defection of some staffers who objected, on moral grounds, to the previous revelations concerning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Patriot Ledger in Massachusetts has put up a poll: Should WikiLeaks staff be prosecuted for releasing documents? [LINK CORRECTED]

Some people are quite sympathetic to these "hundreds of Volunteers all over the globe..."

Talk about staff overload, Assange has apparently been sitting on "a full five gigabyte of documents" concerning his next target but this time it's a bank:

Is Bank Of America WikiLeaks’ Next Target?

Makes you wonder what might have happened had Julian Assange put all his efforts into creating a business or inventing a life-saving medical device or heading up an international relief agency instead of creating a sort of tabloid newpaper on steroids.

UPDATE: Now he's calling for the resignation of Hillary Clinton...

I just wish he and George Soros would mind their own ******* business.

UPDATE #2: "We Have Not Seen Anything Yet": [UK] Guardian Editor Says Most Startling WikiLeaks Cables Still To Be Released

Proof that Obama is no Franklin D. Roosevelt!

This excerpt, while taken out of context story-wise, makes it unchallenginly clear that Obama is no FDR (no matter how much he keeps telling everyone he is). Furthermore, the acts of terror being discussed were on our own soil and within our own borders...FDR would not allow a civilian trial under that circumstance and thus would obviously be even less inclined to award a civilian trial to those from a battlefield in another country. Sorry Obama administration: this whole story (actual history) proves beyond a doubt that you are hiding under a plexiglass blanket...you batch of fools will ultimately cause the deaths of more and more Americans.

How terrorists were dealt with by FDR
Excerpts from Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage, Joseph E. Persico, 2001:

FDR essentially took charge of the case. He told Biddle that he wanted the eight agents tried, not in a civilian court, but by a military tribunal, which he himself would appoint. They had forfeited any right to a civilian trial, as Roosevelt put it, because "[t]hese men had penetrated battlelines strung on land along our two coasts and guarded on the sea by our destroyers, and were waging battle within our country." They fell under the Law of War. A military tribunal would be quick, not subject to the protracted appeals procedures of civilian courts. It would not be hog-tied by the criminal courts' exacting rules of evidence. It could impose the death sentence, not as the civil courts required, by a unanimous verdict, but by a two-thirds vote. A military tribunal offered the advantages and the assured outcome that the President wanted. A civilian court was out of the question. FDR told Biddle, "I want one thing clearly understood, Francis: I won't give them up . . . I won't hand them over to any United States Marshall armed with a writ of habeas corpus. Understand!"

Read this story--it's very telling!

Imagine that! They torture women...even though Obama is handsome and charming

APRIL 16, 2009
Iran's Latest U.S. Hostage
Goodwill begets an espionage trial.

In 2003, an Iranian-born Canadian photojournalist named Zahra Kazemi was arrested in Tehran, jailed in its notorious Evin prison and charged with espionage. Less than three weeks later, Kazemi was dead. An Iranian doctor who examined her before her death later reported that she had been raped, sustained a skull fracture and had her fingernails ripped out.

Now another foreign journalist is imprisoned at Evin and also charged with espionage. In late January, Roxana Saberi, a U.S.-born reporter of Iranian descent who had been living in Iran for several years, was arrested for buying a bottle of wine. In early March, she was accused of "illegal activities," including working without press credentials. She was later indicted for espionage and on Monday her case went to trial, which lasted a day; a verdict is expected within weeks.

If you read this whole article, you will understand that the American people were duped into believing that Obama would change the way that Iran relates to the United States. This, and other information coming out daily in the news proves they were all just "useful idiots."

Advocates of engagement often make the case that talks are the best way to foster better relations with Iran, and a better Iran altogether. Ms. Saberi's prosecution is as good an indication as any of the real nature of the regime, and of how the mullahs intend to reciprocate Mr. Obama's open handshake.

Read the whole thing!