Lee Fang catches Rep. Allen West demanding the news media be censored over Wikileaks:
There are different means by which you can be attacked. I mean it doesnt have to be a bomb or an airplane flying into a building. It doesn’t have to be a shooting. It can be through cyber attacks, it could be through leaking of very sensitive classified information. Regardless of whether you think it causes any harm, the fact that here is an individual that is not an American citizen first and foremost, for whatever reason gotten his hands on classified American material and put it out there in the public domain. And I think that we also should be censoring the American news agencies which enabled him to do this and also supported him and applauding him for the efforts. So that’s kind of aiding and abetting of a serious crime.
This isn’t strange, it’s the logical progression of an argument calling for Wikileaks’ prosecution. What’s strange is the idea that the attacks on Wikileaks somehow don’t also apply to mainstream journalists who also reveal classified information in the public interest.
