Everyone's talking about the "one guy with a laptop" but what about the people who provided the information in the first place? a wiki by definition is a collaborative site. Shut him down, but there's a much bigger house cleaning that needs to occur.

Perhaps the idiot Holder can send the Black Panthers to club Assange. I heard that they owe him a favor.

Another piece of the puzzle of Obama displaying his anti-colonialist attitude towards the US.

And another thing your not hearing much about Pvt. Manning, the noted person whom stole the secrets: He's gay and his drag-queen boyfriend 'talked' him into it.

Are we ignoring the obvious? Aren't these documents stolen property? Isn't Assange a recpient of known stolen property? Why don't we demand the reutrn of the documents and any copies that were made? Why don't we also press charges against Assange for trafficing in stolen goods in addition to all the other offenses.

Charles,

We can always depend on you for some common sense and a wonderful sense of humor. I'm such a fan!

If Obama had any guts or at least a smidgen of love for this country, he would have hired several hundred professional hit men to go after Assange and then would have gone on tv and announced as much. Of course if you are a gutless wonder who hates the US it follows as sure as night follows day, that won`t happen.

Richard Ryan

Lamar, Missouri (Birthplace of Harry S Truman)

Hear Hear!!

There is no steel in obungle. He thinks if you ignore a problem long enough, it will go away. He hasn't dealt with any situation that requires those hangy down things.

Well, after all, Obama's just a good man in a jam, without the experience he needs to sort it all out, y'know. Really?

And why, at this late date, does it remain largely unfathomable, even to our best and brightest, that he may very well be a very bad man, putting us all, daily, into an ever deeper jam, ON PURPOSE, with about 100 million man-hours of communist subversive experience backing every move.

We must stop dreaming about what we have at hand here!

The DOJ is probably the most politicised department in the foggy area of Washington and staffed by the most wrong headed folks imaginable. Daily, they and their leader become more and more of a sick joke.

The despicable truth is, the Obama administration isn't doing anything about this because they WANT American to seem weak and helpless. That's part of their goal.

Worse, they WANT to encourage others to attack us, by not leveling any consequences against those who have attacked us. Good lord, in the wake of 9/11 these same ideologues were chiding us that America's chickens had come home to roost! Obama's gone around the world -- particularly the Islamic world -- apologizing for America's sins.

It's time we stopped pretending this is an ordinary President who takes his duties seriously. This man is an anti-American radical who is working as hard as he possibly can to destroy this country.

Any readers wondering what Kevin meant in a comment above referring to Obama's "anticolonialist" attitude can pick up a copy of Dinesh D'Souza's "The Roots of Obama's Rage," which explains in great detail where this radical President's anti-American agenda comes from. D'Souza terms it anticolonialism, which is a term not heard very often here, so many people may not know what it means. He makes a devastating case, but the ideology undeniably manifests itself in Obama as a seething desire to weaken America in every possible way. Obama is literally fulfilling the "Dreams from [his] Father."

A few years back a foreign nation solved their spy problem by injecting the alleged spy with some form of radiation. The assinination took place in London I believe. There was some objection from the free world but it all faded and not much else was hears. That's how a they solved a bad problem. This is how you deal with problems in the real world. If we had any spine we'd do the same thing not continue in the fantasy world we are in. Anyone who jepordizes our national security, puts our citizens and military in danger, betrays or is complicit in betraying our nations should be eliminated one way or the other, period.

There is a question here that all of all-knowing pundits seem to be studiously avoiding. Pfc Manning is far too low on the food chain to have the security clearance for the information.

Who, in the State Department is actually providing the information? Who is the mole in our government?

The NYT appeared to be recieving classified information before Wikileaks was ever heard of.

Regardless of what is done with Manning, we need to find the "bad guys", within or own government, try them for treason and put them away for life.

I want to go on record as being against Plutonium poisoning. Shame on you, Talman: it's too easy to subject innocent bystanders to damage that way!

Kraut': you're overboard when you say it's done more damage than the 6 (and you rarely go overboard). So far, nothing is even surprising to me. If anything I think the leaks show America's a great country which I already knew.

The reason Holder has not gone after him until now is that he was busy going after Arizona and everything else that is American.