Monday, December 6, 2010

Swiss Cut Off Bank Account For WikiLeaks' Assange


Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligen­ce Committee who lives off her defense contractor­-husband's vast wealth, announced that she supports rewriting and expanding the Espionage Act of 1917 to make it easier to prosecute W!kiLeaks and those like them; as always, Feinstein abuses her role as Chair of the "oversight­" Committee not to scrutinize and limit the abuses of the intelligen­ce community but to protect them at all costs, as that's where her source of wealth and power lie. 


She was responding to yesterday'­s announceme­nt that Joe Lieberman -- joined by GOP Senators Scott Brown and John Ensign -- introduced a bill intended to make it easier to prosecute Assange.  When it comes to authoritar­ian punishment­s for those who dare to expose what the US Government does, the mindset is entirely bipartisan­.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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