arrest assange who is wanted in sweden on sexual assault charges. the u.s. is looking to prosecute him for the massive dump of sensitive diplomatic cables that exposed many of america s secrets to the world. joining us, amy holmis and democratic supporter, lady lynn forester derothschild. is assange necessary to free speech? free government? is he exposing things that need exposed, or is he an enemy of the state. no question, he is an enany of the state and we should prosecutor him under the espionage act. there is no question about that. i hope the government will take that action. people have written articles saying we re killing the messenger here. the problem is things that he s exposing. not the fact that he s exposing them. no, that s not the problem. that s not the problem at all. these are top-secret government transmittal documents that were
happen. given the internet and how easy it is to get information now and pass it around. your last point is the crucial one, how easy it was for private first class bradley manning to download a quarter of a million documents labeled secret. and this was a big failure, i think, in our government s handling of these documents. i agree entirely with lady lynn and her assessment of mr. assange. i think he should be prosecuted. i would like to see special forces pa rs rapelling down rop lines, arifting him, getting the n nor reing a ga treatment. it has jeopardized our lives. what are the next steps? it troubles me that our administration is only just now talking about possible indictments, possible crimes. there was fair warning he was going to be leaking information. he already did when it came to documents having to do with the war on terror in afghanistan and iraq. we had fair warning about his