Fox News editorial: WikiLeaks employees should be declared ‘enemy combatants’

By Stephen C. Webster
Monday, October 25, 2010 21:43 EST
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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. Indict Mr. Assange and his colleagues for espionage, regardless of whether he is presently in a U.S. jurisdiction, and ask our allies to do the same.

2. Explore opportunities for the president to designate WikiLeaks and its officers as enemy combatants, paving the way for non-judicial actions against them.

3. Freeze the assets of the WikiLeaks organization and its supporters, and sanction financial organizations working with this terrorist-enabling organization so they cannot clear transactions denominated in U.S. dollars.

4. Give the new U.S. Cyber-Command a chance to prove its worth by ordering it to electronically assault WikiLeaks and any telecommunications company offering its services to this organization.

5. Holding meaningful congressional hearings to look into how this much classified information could ever be compromised and how the U.S. can better identify and combat political warfare organizations like WikiLeaks.

The writer’s other recent hits: recommending that Republicans in Congress withhold money from health care recipients, calling for a US-sponsored coup in North Korea and praising Bill O’Reilly’s crusade against National Public Radio.

In attacking WikiLeaks, Whiton seems to be following a thread laid by Marc Thiessen, a former Bush speechwriter, who asserted in a Post op-ed just after the Afghan war files publication that the site should be held in violation of the US espionage act and taken down using “military assets” — even if that means breaking international and domestic laws to kidnap founder Julian Assange from within the European Union.

Time Magazine was quick to fire back at calls for military or other “non-judicial” actions against WikiLeaks:

To be clear, Assange’s crime [...] is intentionally receiving and republishing classified information, something that is done with some regularity in the United States by respectable and responsible reporters working for top flight news organizations. To adopt Thiessen’s view, one would effectively have to reject the Supreme Court’s opinion in New York Times Co. v. United States, the so-called Pentagon Papers case from 1971.

Concurring in that case, Justice Potter Stewart observed, “In the absence of governmental checks and balances present in other areas of our national life, the only effective restraint upon executive policy and power in the area of national defense and international affairs may lie in an enlightened citizenry — in an informed and critical public opinion which alone can here protect the values of democratic government.. . . . Without an informed and free press, there cannot be an enlightened people.”

The massive cache of Iraq war documents published last week by WikiLeaks revealed that the US military knew about an additional 15,000+ civilian casualties that went unreported in the broader press.

It also showed that US officials turned a blind eye to the torture and murder of prisoners by Iraqi soldiers, and provided evidence that US forces really did find weapons of mass destruction in the desert nation, although the small caches they uncovered did not support Bush-era claims that Saddam Hussein had reconstituted their development.

Whiton made no mention of how US officials might correct these wrongs. Indeed, his whole argument seems to be predicated on insisting that by acting as a conduit for the release of restricted information, WikiLeaks must be more criminally liable than those who engaged in the cover-up of thousands of civilian deaths. He even accuses them of risking the lives of US collaborators, but offers no criticism of those who actually had people murdered.

WikiLeaks, however, took significant steps to redact the names of individuals mentioned in incident reports written by US soldiers operating in Iraq. The site did not take this step with its 70,000+ pages of Afghan war files published earlier this year.

“In this case we have taken an even more vigorous approach than we took in relation of the Afghan material, not because we believe that approach was particularly lacking [but] rather just to prevent those sort of distractions from the serious content by people who would like to try and distract from the message,” founder Julian Assange said.

The Pentagon admitted that WikiLeaks did take care to obscure the identities of “300 or so” people who it said may have been put at risk by the release of its documents, but officials cautioned that information remains that could help identify those individuals.

Stephen C. Webster
Stephen C. Webster
Stephen C. Webster is the senior editor of Raw Story, and is based out of Austin, Texas. He previously worked as the associate editor of The Lone Star Iconoclast in Crawford, Texas, where he covered state politics and the peace movement’s resurgence at the start of the Iraq war. Webster has also contributed to publications such as True/Slant, Austin Monthly, The Dallas Business Journal, The Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Weekly, The News Connection and others. Follow him on Twitter at @StephenCWebster.
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  • Anonymous

    Fox news declaring the truth an enemy?

    I’ll be shocked here shortly I’m sure…wait for it….

  • Anonymous

    The ‘War on Truth’ has begun.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steve-McGraw/1146093832 Steve McGraw

    Interesting, I think Christian Whiton should rethink his statements a bit, in light of the fact that we now know the administration he worked for lied to us, many times. The first big lie resulted in the invasion of Iraq and the subsequents deaths of over 100,000 people. Other lies included covering up the bloody mess we had caused by lying about the murders and tortures being perpetrated by Iraqi security while on our watch. So Mr Whiton, which series of lies are you going to stand up and take the blame for? I’m sure a few are worth would be capital crimes if not war crimes.

  • Winski

    NO ONE, EVER at Cluster-Fox gets to ‘proclaim’ any thing of the sort. They are a propaganda shop and consistent hate machine. ALL of their people deserve to be in JAIL..

  • Anonymous

    Unless it isn’t true in the first place(?)
    Then it’s just another rouse.

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  • Anonymous

    “Fox News editorialist”

    a new oxymoron (pun intended)

  • FellOnEarth

    Egads, Wikileaks has just shown that the U.S. is guilty of war crimes and also facilitated a regime in committing war crimes without attempting to stop them. Nice to know we’ve replaced Saddam and the Bathists with al-Maliki and his band of murdering men. Some things never change.

  • Anonymous

    The truth is the enemy of the conservative right wing-nuts. The truth is under attack by tea baggers and neocons.

    If our tax money is being used for wars, we, as a nation, need to know the truth.

    As much as Faux Snooze and the rest of the conservative world want to silence the truth, the truth cannot be muffled. No matter what happens, the truth will eventually come out.

    Julian Assange is indeed a hero for the truth.

  • Anonymous

    history teaches that nazi’s always seem to have a final solution for everything and everyone…

  • NadePaulKuciGravMcKi

    Are the Neocons getting mighty angry?

    Just wait ’til they see the hard 9/11 data

  • GodBlessedAmerica

    WikiLeaks has American blood on it’s hands. What we did had to be done. As an American you might not like or agree with the decisions that were made but you must support them. In the theatre of war ugly things happen.

    Direct threats require decisive action.
    -Dick Cheney

  • Hubris

    you’re clueless and dangerously ignorant.

  • Hubris

    OT

    Please spread this around:
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  • Anonymous

    This is what we have to look forward to, should the Republicans regain control of Congress and/or the White House.

    Anyone who dares to stand up to them, even disagree with them, will be declared an “enemy combatant” and eliminated.

    And they call Obama fascist.

  • Anonymous

    Again republican and their so-called news organizations are attacking person who publish facts to benefit these Global Empires.
    Beck and Fox are a disgrace to our news media and our country.
    We should not be building larger global corporations but breaking down the ones which exit today and controlling our lives.
    When lies , miss-truths and propaganda is left unchecked , it will destroy a country and the lives of its citizens.

  • Anonymous

    “Ulta Chor Kotwal Ko Daante” (Google it)

    This is like the criminals blaming the police for a crime wave…. like Israel calling the Palestinians “terrorists”…. like calling the US army “a force for good in the world”….. like saying Glenn Beck preaches Christian Values….

  • Anonymous

    Americans declare Fox News to be an “enemy combatant” for advocating actions counter to the interests of the USA and its citizens, and for lying.

  • http://tholosofathena.blogspot.com/ copeland_morris

    Christian Whiton is a stone-cold fascist. Only a fascist would propose “non-judicial actions” against whistleblowers. It is clear what he is proposing. He means action outside of law; he means killing people who say too much; and Whiton is the new breed of media extremist. He is clearly announcing the intent of a new political class that wants a country where people can be silenced permanently, if they dare expose the crimes committed by the government and military. How brazen of people like him to declare openly for the new power to crush both information and people.

  • Anonymous

    I’m hoping there is a whole lot of sarcasm there.

  • http://billy.wenge-murphy.com/ Billy Wenge-Murphy

    This is satirical, right?

  • Adolf H.

    Heil Obama !

    Fascism is the new normal in the US.

    We in Germany are watching your decline and we are not impressed.

    WikiLeaks are the true heroes of our time, the US became the worlds enemy #1 by dragging everybody down with them and declaring finally open the war on truth.

    SHAME ON YOU !

    We will not obey !

  • ForHire

    Im ready and apply for a job at WikiLeaks.

    I will be honored to serve the truth and resist any threats from the US and possible allies in the war against truth.

    Bring it on everybody, show your true face !

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  • Anonymous

    This idiot should be brought up on charges for being complicit to aid and abet a government cover up of war crimes.

  • War Crimes

    The US are guilty of war crimes and are not in the position to threaten Wikileaks anymore.

    The whole world knows already what is going on:

    Lies, lies and more lies coming out of the US.

    Take it from me: WE HAD ENOUGH OF THE BS !

    Its time to take a position and time for everybody to stand up on this.

  • Anonymous

    Instilling fear and hate, reinforcing mass stupidity and ignorance, that’s what FOX does best. Just a bunch of corporatized media zombies.

  • Accountability

    Above was a comment of “GodBlessedAmerica”

    That person got it all wrong.

    This is about accountability for the US war crimes being exposed.

    The lack of accountability shown over again by the US administration is feeding directly into hostile action against US service men abroad.

    Remember that shallow justification: “What we did had to be done”

    Exactly that logic applies to any patriot of any country in the world.

    You get it ? Can you cope with the inherent consequences ?

    START USING THE STUFF BETWEEN YOUR EARS, instead burning your own citizens in those useless wars, they are not the sons of the senators and congress members….. just the other ones children.

    Americans must stand up against war. Take your troops home now.

    Thank you for your attention.

  • Anonymous

    Of course Faux News has a problem with someone telling the truth!.

  • Anonymous

    When news gets turned into big business, “dog bites man” means that in order to make money, purveyors of news have to keep upping the ante into the more and more ridiculous, on order to shock viewers into watching. This is the reason Fox is #1 in the ratings; they are the most shocking to watch. People tune in to hear progressively extreme viewpoints, and other American media are following suit. I can only imagine a more cacophonous future lies ahead of us…

  • http://jammer5spolyrant.wordpress.com/ Jammer5

    Fox says wikileaks is an enemy combatant, but then use their releases to say, “Wait a minute here folks: there were WMD! The usual hypocrisy coming from the mouths of slime spewers.

    And does anyone with any intelligence think for one minute if WMD were found in Iraq, Bush, Rove, Cheney and the rest of his staff wouldn’t have been on every TV station talk show with the proof? Like, “Hey guys, we found what we went to war for, but we ain’t gonna let anybody know about it.” And there really is an Easter bunny, a tooth fairy and monsters under the bed.

  • Anonymous

    All WikiLeaks employees and agents should receive Congressional Medals of Honor. Without them, how will we practice Democracy? It’s not like Barack Obama is ever going to stand up for the Constitution, so it’s left to people who know the difference between right and wrong.

  • Anonymous

    Hey, I’ve got an idea, let’s declare everyone at Fox News “enemy combatants.”

    It fits. They butcher the facts. They subvert the truth. They molest their moronic viewers every day.

    They are definitely News Terrorists.

  • abdul

    FOX should know that the truth can never be silence, killing wikileaks staffers will not kill the truth. America should come out clean and prove to the world they went to iraq with clear conscience to do what they did.

  • http://twitter.com/Covert4Liberty Freedom Rings

    Prick Cheney is a known Draft Dodger, His War Partner Bush was AWOL
    GW Bush – decided that a six-year Nat’l Guard commitment really means four years. Still says that he’s “been to war.” Huh?
    VP Cheney – several deferments the last by marriage (in his own words, “had other priorities than military service”)
    Former Att’y Gen. John Ashcroft – did not serve received seven deferment to teach business ed at SW Missouri State
    Jeb Bush, Florida Governor – did not serve.
    Karl Rove – avoided the draft, did not serve, too busy being a Republican.
    Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani – did not serve.
    Paul Wolfowitz, did not serve
    Richard Perle, did not serve
    Bill O’Reilly, did not serve
    Bill Kristol, did not serve
    Sean Hannity, did not serve.
    Antonin Scalia, did not serve
    Clarence Thomas, did not serve
    And there you have the Neo-Con CHICKENHAWKS
    that have the blood on their hands.
    Wiki did not start the illegal wars, the Chickenhawks did.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_N3H4LUWG3L3Y6JTS4BQESW67VA Bryan Black

    America is merely a rhyme of the British Empire, and the only real difference between them and the nazis is that the nazis were more proactive in fighting comparable great powers, whereas the British just went after the haunches of whichever weak country whose invasion wouldn’t upset the global community that much.

    However it’s just a rhyme, setting up a colonial Raj for a country using torture and conventional warfare simply doesn’t work in modern times anymore, it’s like plugging a square peg into a round hole. Wonder how it’s gonna end?

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  • Anonymous

    “Shooting the messenger”, is supposed to be metaphorical. These right-wingers take everything so literal.

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    When the British were Empire building, there was no ‘global community’.

  • Anonymous

    Turn off Fox News. [Not merely to avoid expanding its audience - but more importantly, to guard against the contamination of our minds]

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  • Anonymous

    The Fox News Gestapo is pissed that the truth about Iraq is coming out.

  • http://voxmagi-necessarywords.blogspot.com/ VoxMagi

    I agree with all his ideas…I just believe they should be used to pursue and arrest Bush and Cheney…because Assange and Wikileaks have only committed the crime of revealing crimes. They aid and abet whistleblowers who follow their duty to their countries by revealing fraud, lies, corruption and even murder. Assange, sadly, embodies a greater sense of ethical conduct than the whole of Fox News and the GOP combined.

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  • Anonymous

    When we enter a stall, we don’t rub our hands on the toilet rim.

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  • Anonymous

    A viewpoint held by Mr. Cheney, his daughter and you.

    Another view is that war crimes should be prosecuted, Cheney is guilty, and he has the blood of 100,000 people on his hands.
    This war was over oil that does not belong to us. No, I do not have to support it.

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  • ofb2632

    Whats wrong mr whiton, afraid of going to jail???

  • http://www.facebook.com/butlincat Butlin Cat

    This guy is nothing more than a common thug. Definatly not good for a government for the people, but ideal as part of the NWO.
    A travesty.

  • http://twitter.com/TheMadApe Tatumba

    The only blood on peoples hands are those who launched an illegal war based on lies to the American public. Anyone who condones this behavior is the real terrorist.

    Fox News is an oxymoron. Rupert Murdoch is a war criminal.

  • http://twitter.com/TheMadApe Tatumba

    That does not surprise you does it? Faux News is nothing more than the marketing arm of the Military Industrial Complex and New World Order’s Fascist Agenda!

    The Mad Ape
    http://www.tatumba.com

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WWPT6X7WDV4GRJLHM424P2Z4LM jaume jaume

    Just one word; Democracy. You and your government are here to administrate people’s money paid on taxes. And to do that you have to explain what you are doing with this money. You and your government are laying to whom you have to account for, your citizens. Nothing else. Wikileaks are telling what things are you making with citizen’s money. And those things include torture, killing kids, rape woman and so on. All punishable actions in all those international and war trades signed by your governments. It’s not wikileaks fault, it’s an Administration and Army fault to do this kind of things and no to tell to citizens. Don’t lose this focus!

  • http://voxxrocks.com/blog/?page_id=396 HIStory Indeed

    Aww… the machine doesn’t like when the people know the truth… Too fruckin bad.

    These guys are patriots for going into the belly of the beast and calling it out.

    The American news media is is a fascist tool purposefully keeping us in the dark while they carry out an agenda against us and the world.

    WikiLeaks did us all a service by opening our eyes further to the lies about our current ILLEGAL wars.

  • Anonymous

    If anybody needs to be named enemy combatants its the Koch Brothers, Charles and
    David. They are funding a mass delusion in the Tea Party. The last time someone named
    David had all his followers “gassed up” was in Waco, TX April 19 , 1993. The Feds, thats you guys, need to go Waco in Wichita. Waco in Wichita. Waco in Wichita. Waco in Wichita.

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  • Anonymous

    Theatre.

    Wikileaks leaks are being used to bolster lies that were used to start the wars. The collateral damage done by these “leaks” isnt anything new or anything already known.

    Does anyone ever wonder why the people running this website werent just “taken out”? Its a website for crying out loud, it is not a foreign government or some sort of James Bond octopus organization. Its a few guys with servers. This is 2010. There is no anonymity. If this stuff wasnt useful to the power, it wouldnt be around.

    Theatre. Managing your own opposition.

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  • Anonymous

    Isn’t it amazing how, when the truth comes out, those responsible for the crimes committed start pointing their fingers every direction but the correct one. This loser thinks that by using our law enforcement against someone who has unveiled the secrecy of these war crimes they will somehow be absolved of their crimes. Sounds like the mob; get rid of anyone who squeals on the organization. Mr. Whiton is pathetic. Too bad we can’t designate him as an enemy combatant for his part in these crimes plus trumped up charges against an individual who is bringing this information to the light of day.

  • http://www.facebook.com/mantecon Bryan Manuel Mantecon

    Wow. Shocked!

    I specially love the contrast. Fake gun cashes, tortured prisoners, civilian casualties, no weapons of mass destruction (reason for war) all of these are nothing compared to publishing the hidden truth (not the same as spying on agencies, wikileaks it’s actually receiving from the very own agencies their intel)

    What’s next? Kidnapp Assange and publicly decapitate him?

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  • Anonymous

    TRUTH HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE ENEMY OF FOX NEWS!

  • http://twitter.com/aboudakhdir Aboud Akhdir

    Shut the fuck up… Wikileaks is shaking the world of politics globally… things will never be the same anymore…

  • Anonymous

    this is what investigative journalist used to do, now that we have a corporate media we only find out the truth from whistleblowers. If watergate happened today wed never hear about it.
    9/11 proved that. its not just the government, its the complicit, propaganda machine called the U.S. media. our entire media is now the equivelent of the National Enquirer.Mental junkfood and propaganda for a braindead audience.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Roy-Chabber/1785074076 Roy Chabber

    You see that Fox… just about every1 of these comments show that the people aren’t as stupid as you think. If it is any1 thats going to be arrested or ‘attacked’ it should be you and your stupid government for lieing about thousands and thousands of murders/deaths (100 times more than 9/11). Wikileaks and Julian Assange are a group of Modern Day HEROES, and it will be you guys and any1 involved in the cover up that will be seen as the villians in 50 years when every looks back on the mess that the US started in Iraq.
    The Truth Will Always Prevail.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_U4CB4JMBKUBO6NL2RNREZDZUEA Freeky_Fried_Chicken

    Fox is owned by The Enemy; it is a propaganda outlet creating Newz™.

    The scary thing is- so many are falling for it.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t he fairandbalanced guys over there love it when there’s a leak on a Democratic President?

  • Anonymous

    Fox News is an enemy combatant.

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  • http://twitter.com/FabioORibeiro Fábio O. Ribeiro

    USA NOW: it doesn’t have anything to teach, it is not a good example and it should only be maintained at the distan

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  • Anonymous

    Al-Quida was not even in Iraq until the Americans got there. The Iraqis had nothing to do with 9/11 and the death of 3000 civilians. Where is the equivalency when America, by it’s illegal, destructive attack on a country results in the deaths of over 100.000 civilians.

    Good for Wikileaks. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely and someone has to confront the power with Truth.

    America is not the only Nation allowed to have Patriots. The arrogance of those planing and executing an illegal war in far off countries, invading and destroying the infrastructure, and declaring the patriots within those countries resisting the obvious invader to be illegal combatants.

    1984 is passed, and the language has become convoluted.

  • Tio Holtzman

    Ignorance is Strength.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FACAYUGCCBSM6S7A2QO4RJDVUM Bard

    Fox news, and its zionist owner, ARE enemy combatants.

    Go wikileaks.

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  • Anonymous

    Perhaps Mr. Whiton editorializes in order to protect his own Bush-era, state department ass. If there was ever a case of shoot the messenger to protect the culpable, this is it.

  • Anonymous

    Well, FOX News has been en enemy of truth and integrity since its inception.

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  • Anonymous

    We are getting closer to the truth about Bush/Cheney and the circle around them at Faux News is starting to tighten. Take your seats, George and Dick and fasten your belts boys, it’s going to be a hell of a ride. Karma is awesome.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2BM2NTCOQEB623NNIJ7SNU3UW4 Lix

    And Fox News editorialists should be declared “IQ handicapped” or “Half idiot”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5U3TOSHADMUWTQS3FDEJM2A3VY prakashs

    US kids die in middle east wars for israel.

    US tortures and that is permanently set in record, thanks to wikileaks.

  • Simón

    But…. Just look at his haircut!!!! What do you expect him to say!?

  • Anonymous

    US allies are currently passing laws to ensure that he can’t be indicted for espionage. Jullian Assange is an Australian citizen, and US law doesn’t apply on Austrlalian territory the same way Australian law doesn’t apply on US territory. Australia is currently seeking to strengthen it’s journalistic protection laws so that the radical voices of individuals like Christian Whiton (which don’t meet our domestic standards of journalism) can’t harm public voices like Mr. Assange’s, regardless of whether an American administration should stoop to listen to them or be pressured by them or not, as extradition law only applies if an offence has taken place on US soil.

    Guys like this are irrelevant though as they’ve obviously not done enough research to know that the WikiLeaks infrastructure is constructed entirely outside of servers and other physical holdings within US control. He’s really just saying ‘I oppose WikiLeaks, I’m not informed enough to advocate an effective strategy against it so I’ll default to violence’. I’m not from America but as they’re an international joke I was wondering if anyone in the US still takes this network seriously or if they’re on the verge of collapse as they pretty obviously should be?

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZDJXLY6X4HJCECR4LKW6T5JWTA genemachine

    Christian Whiton needs to shut the f@ck up…

  • Rush Goofbaugh

    You are nothing more than a complicit corporate christian war criminal and bigot. Something uglier than your thought process is unimaginable.

    This is what blood on your corporate christian war criminals hands looks like.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0&has_verified=1

  • Ron

    Whiton wants to disconnect websites he deems undisirable from the net.
    Modern day bookburning?
    Nazi much?

  • Anonymous

    Bingo.

    I said months ago that if Wikileaks eventually gets to Iran as a threat, then you know this is a very “sophisticated” fakeout. Desperate for a false flag event to go to war against Iran. The State Department will try anything now.

    Lots of things about Julian are disconcerting. He is so interested about the wars, and what started them, and will not address the 911 conspiracy AT ALL. And if one doesn’t understand the implications of that event, then these wars will never make sense and we will have them in perpetuity.

    You can tell its fake because its going to be all about Iran. We already know all the drug-running, civilian-killing “truths” of Iraq and Afghanistan.

    A fake out, but a little to obvious and a little too late. Thankfully. But it does complete the picture. Its just the false emphasis on Iran is to go to war. Big boogeyman Julian.

  • Anonymous

    While we’re at it, we should indict any news outlets here in the U.S. that created or rebroadcast lies, editorials and other propaganda in the run up to the illegal invasion of Iraq for crimes against humanity. I believe lies should be prosecuted, not truth. Fox news personalities are horrible excuses for journalists in particular and human beings in general. I must really suck to be you!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Wolf-Powers/100001034732258 Wolf Powers

    Look in the mirror if you want to see the enemy faux news.

  • http://twitter.com/Covert4Liberty Freedom Rings

    Iraq Vet: “WikiLeaks tells the truth”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOpEIzQ21XI

  • Anonymous

    America needs non-judicial action on employees of Fox News. They are the legitimate heirs of Joseph Goebbels. All they need is the right Fuhrer and the United States will deal with all the Jews and other non-Christians in much the same manner as the Nazis, exile or death.

  • Anonymous

    Possible ruse.

  • Anonymous

    Fox News employees should be declared ‘Corporate Scum’.

  • Anonymous

    This guy needs to be brought up on charges of conspiracy to commit treason against the US along with his masters, Cheney, Rummy, Bush and the rest of the neo-con plotters for their criminal invasion of an unarmed country.

  • Anonymous

    Sure the government would absolutely love that. Someone who exposes their evil acts is decalred an enemy combatant and killed by the CIA in the name of National Security. Whatever happened to the Constitution and the rule of law?

  • Anonymous

    So much for the constitution that Republicans say they love so much, how about Freedom of the press? Don’t we as Americans always espouse freedom of the press and when it’s silenced we’re quick to admonish the offending country?
    Maybe Fox news and most Republicans can’t as Colonel Jessep so famously said in “A few Good men” : “You can’t handle the truth!”
    Or maybe they know it, can handle it, they just don’t want us all knowing it as well because it will reinforce that they are the facists we all know them to be.

  • Anonymous

    Fox News afraid of everything, Muslims, Mexicans, Blacks, Libruls and especially the TRUTH.

  • Anonymous

    I think Foxnews employees should be declared enemy combatants.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bob-Zentrails/100001475536421 Bob Zentrails

    Reminds me of that old Randy Newman song: “Let’s drop the big one, they all hate us anyway.” LOL

    And besides they’re just being consistent.
    They were equally outraged at Valerie Plame’s outing.
    Weren’t they? LOL

  • Anonymous

    How about Scooter Libby and whomever gave him the information to him about Valerie Plame? I mean, if anybody who releases classified information is to be declared an enemy combatant, Scooter and his conspirator(s) are more than eligible!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bob-Zentrails/100001475536421 Bob Zentrails

    Careful, you’re going to end up on their list, too. LOL

  • Anonymous

    If one day we have an international war crimes trial in The Hague for the perpetrators, enablers and cheerleaders for torture and the illegal and unconstitutional Iraq war, I hope it won’t just be the entire Bush administration and those in the Obama administration who are now obstructing justice standing trial. I hope the trial will include those modern-day Julius Streicher’s in our corporate mass media, including the professional liars of the NY Times and Foxnews.

  • Anonymous

    “Explore opportunities for the president to designate WikiLeaks and its officers as enemy combatants, paving the way for non-judicial actions against them.” – Whiton.

    Rethuglican dog whistle for torture.

  • http://twitter.com/shivabeach Shiva

    Sorry FoxNews, the people have a right to know what Bush did. And this info will surface for a long time to come.

    I consider Fox news enemy combatants.

  • Anonymous

    We should declare fox news an enemy combatant, and then Obama can kill everyone who gives support to such a terrorist organization.

    I volunteer for the position of minister of torture.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3WVPA4DMRNLJEZLKO4YDYJO72I .

    Christian Whiton stop snorting all those testosterone pills. Assange is a hero, Obama should give his Peace prize to him.

    Folks in glass empires shouldn’t fly drones

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  • Anonymous

    I think the workers at the German propaganda machine were tried and convicted of war crimes. Hey you guys over at Faux News better have good attorneys when the Baggers FINALLY figure out what you have pulled on them!

  • Anonymous

    One more time for all the “newbies” to thsi thread.

    “The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money and more power.
    They claim to be superpatriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjugation”
    Vice President Henry Wallace

  • http://www.facebook.com/pfennigman Steve Eisinger

    How true, five stars. Everyone is so down on FOX, yet none of the other networks bring any real news. Here is that Fox missed:

    Spread the news!!

    LONDON PAPER ABOUT OBAMA’S VISIT

    But you have already read about this in your local newspaper …
    Oh no, you didn’t? OK then, you saw it on CNN… No?… INTERESTING!!!

    You and I may never see health care again the way it used to be, but “Emperor Obama” took six (6) doctors with him for a 3 day visit to London – along with 494 other essential staff.

    You just gotta love this spread-the-wealth, hopey-changey thing ….

  • Anonymous

    And sometimes the fascists attempt to create a phony left-right paradigm…

    http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/10/23/gordon-duff-ho-hum-more-wikileaks-chickenfeed/

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/YVBA25ZZJYN5C44WGILY6P4X34 Raven

    In other words the US should start acting like North Korea. Day to day we sink to new lows. Once up on a time we could place ourselves upon a level of moral high ground and say we don’t do those things. Now we have to hide them in our corporate media and dazzle the people with things that don’t matter. The message of hate and fear seems to be winning out in our nation.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gregory-Martin/100000564476826 Gregory Martin

    Fox News=American Taliban.

  • Ma’at

    It is time to bring down Fox News. This “news” organization has infiltrated America and has brought our nation to it’s knees. It is an enemy that must be neutralized.

  • http://www.facebook.com/pfennigman Steve Eisinger

    Well, at last someone who does not have their head head up in the fog on Mt. Hood.
    Everyone is down on FOX, yet in the U.S. no other Network brings the news.

    The release of these hard hitting classified papers is wrong, It was classified for a reason. I am not here to say that the contents are right or wrong. However I will point out that by putting it out there for the whole world to read is putting EVERY Service member be they male or female at risk of being MURDERED.
    Everyone forgot United States History & that is our freedoms have been won and protected by of Military, so PLEASE let’s not be so free and careless with all classified information..

  • Anonymous

    FAUXNOOZ already is an enemy of America.

  • Anonymous

    “FOX, yet in the U.S. no other Network brings the news. ” ..LOL!
    …these wars are illegal and we don’t need to wait 30 years to find out the truth…

    “EVERY Service member be they male or female at risk of being MURDERED. ”
    …well lets bring them home…we pay off the Taliban and Al Queda and Pakistan to move equipment and supplies through the country and Iran is giving the bags full of money!…time to cut our losses and leave, they don’t want us there, and it has nothing to do with protecting our freedom.. what they really want is the minerals and oil pipeline access…get real!

  • Knot

    “4. Give the new U.S. Cyber-Command a chance to prove its worth by ordering it to electronically assault WikiLeaks and any telecommunications company offering its services to this organization.”

    It would be amusing to see the Pentagon declare war against Amazon.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/amazon/8087651/Amazon-hosting-WikiLeaks-Warlogs-information.html

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NJCCIALXZS6QQW6QSNNW5NKLHU sbc

    Fox news has done all it can to assist large corporation to dominate of the US government. They along with several other corporation, are flooding the market with money for candidates that will continue to give the corporation what it wants. Which wants to corrupt the Constitution and it’s republicans lackey’s to do the what they will too the Constitution.

  • Anonymous

    Whiton is a dumb-ass and needs to be deported. He obviously doesn’t believe in truth,
    justice and as such, doesn’t deserve to live in this country.
    Since when is exposing criminal acts wrong Mr. Whiton?
    Mr. Assange is a hero for exposing the crimes of the US Government.

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  • Anonymous

    Freedom of press. How do you like the shoe on the other foot biatch?

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