US Intell planned to destroy Wikileaks

[Peter Lemkin]

AMY GOODMAN: Julian, Marc Thiessen, the former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, wrote a column in Tuesday’s Washington Post calling WikiLeaks a "criminal enterprise." He went on to write—let me quote—"Assange is a non-U.S. citizen operating outside the territory of the United States. This means the government has a wide range of options for dealing with him. It can employ not only law enforcement but also intelligence and military assets to bring Assange to justice and put his criminal syndicate out of business. The first step is for the Justice Department to indict Assange." Again, these are the words of Marc Thiessen, who is the former speechwriter for George W. Bush, writing in Washington Post.

JULIAN ASSANGE: Yeah, extraordinary. But I see, we can guess, what perhaps would have happened to this organization under Bush. But we should have some concerns in that Obama has authorized the assassination of US citizens overseas. And what will happen? Will that be—we’ll see some statement leading to that sort of behavior. It appears that this administration is not above that. I see this a bit as a floating balloon that Thiessen has put up. Of course, he is no doubt doing it in order to show that he’s at the vanguard of that school of thought. And it will be seen whether that balloon gets shot down or not by the American people. And if it doesn’t get shot down by criticism, then it will be assumed that that behavior is in some way acceptable. Now, in Europe, it’s another matter. What Thiessen is saying is that US forces would enter European territory without—illegally and conduct an illegal act, like they did in Italy, kidnapping some al-Qaeda. But disturbing to me is to see these references to deal with journalists that were previously done to al-Qaeda.

I'm surprized They haven't branded Assange a "terrorist" and Wikileaks a "terrorist organisation".

Then, They could simply give his name to TF 373, or some other sub-contracted, deep black, death squad, and target him for extra-judicial assassation.

They have in all but name - and I'm sure they will shortly. The whole organization and the concept, not to mention Assange have a big target on their heads and 'Private Contractors' and Black Ops Specialists, sadly, will shortly have their names, photos and 'mission'. We all need to scream real loud before something happens to any of them!!! Too many journalists and researchers, progressives and protesters have died or been wrongly imprisoned and worse, already!!!!