that s what intelligence officers do. what this guy has done, he s taken that information and he s taken it, stolen it from us, from our country and we have attempted to protect it. he stole it from us and then he has produced it to anybody who wants to see it. what he s done just as joe just got through saying. he has willfully disclosed information that he was told 27 november by the state department s general council in a letter to him and they said, look, this is our material. we want it back and we want you to destroy your database. that is setting up the prosecution right there because he s made aware of it and he did it anyway. as joe said, he was bragging about it. once somebody goes to these sites and looks at them, it is a matter of ranking them in order of their importance and then rank them in order of security. i want you to hit the other side of this argument because according to assange and his
indicate, is that if the papers had been published, they could go prosecute for that, but, the government was not court was not going to stop the papers from publishing them but if they already published them they could be prosecuted for that and what assange has done here is, published the paperwork, and, now, one interesting point is, on 27 november of this year, the state department general counsel, cole came along and sent a note to assange and said, destroy your databases, return to us our classified information, and. julie: why doesn t the u.s. destroy wikileaks via a cyber attack? does the threat warrant a strike in your mind? no, it doesn t. i mean, if we wanted wikileaks to disappear we could destroy it with the cyber command capability with no problem and there should be no mistake, we re the top in the world when it comes to this but there is a reason we haven t destroyed it, because doing so would open up our kimono, and expose our