By
William McCullough
” Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
Ovid
The media in a schizophrenic stampede has trampled the story of the WikiLeaks betrayal. In lockstep with the Obama administration they have downplayed this horrific display of treason by stating, one and all, that the classified intelligence leaked, was already known and simply is not a big deal. They are right to a point. The fact that Hamad Gul, Director of the Pakistani ISI, (Inter- Services Intelligence – 1987-1999),and his successor Mahmood Ahmed, had been aiding and abetting the Taliban, while receiving U.S. subsidies was known in the last years of the Clinton administration.
The then head of ISI gave money, weapons and intelligence to the Taliban when they began their move to overthrow the secular Afghanistan government in 1998. However Clinton, as we saw when he let Bin Laden escape our CIA teams, was too busy with the coming and goings on under his desk in the Oval Office to take any action.
That aside, many of the classified documents, stated as being inconsequential by the Obama administration and their media whores, are anything but that. According to the Times of London:
“Hundreds of Afghan lives have been put at risk by the leaking of 90,000 intelligence documentsto WikiLeaks because the files identify informants working with NATO forces.”
” The Times….found the names of dozens of Afghans credited with providing detailed intelligence to U.S. forces. Their villages are given for identification and also, in many cases, their fathers’ names. U.S. officers recorded detailed logs of the information fed to them by named local informants, particular including tribal elders.”
Apparently what is now taking place in the Obama administration is a minimalization of treason as practiced by those traitorous individuals who are committed to taking down and embarrassing the U.S., actions that seem to fit the Obama administrations agenda. The end result of the Obama administration’s omission of their responsibility to react to this treason, makes them complicit in any murder and torture of those Afghanis who are murdered by the Taliban and Al Qaeda as a result of these intelligence leaks. Just my opinion.
This leak is espionage, purely. Secondly, it is evidence in an open Army investigation against Manning. Therefore, publishing this also obstructs justice in the investigation and prosecution-and compromises classified and or sesnitive information-during wartime-and has placed American Forces and caused grave damage to national security.
Yet, these people were not stopped from publishing 90, 000 documents that are sensitive and absolutely knew the risks involved to national security and soldiers in a combat zone. Then on The Hill website today, Obama himself downplays the leakage by saying that most of what was published is already known. To the enemy in war time???????
Something is not right with all of this and the accumulation of exceptionally grave damage to this country during his Presidency is becoming quite deadly to our continued soverignty and taken together since he has been President, it is obvious that prosecution of war and an assertive foreign policy is absent, and deliberately set up to fail.
Then there are aDemocrats who have had it, going to the extent of publishing this opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703700904575391553798363586.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
When are the American people going to wake up?????????