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July 27, 2010: Leading Republican Calls for Wikileaks Leaker to Be Prosecuted for Treason

2010-07-27

Peter King (R-NY), the ranking Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, calls for Wikileaks-linked whistleblower Bradley Manning to be prosecuted for treason. On the radio show Imus in the Morning, King says Manning’s leak of 93,000 documents recently published by Wikileaks is “disgraceful,” adding: “It violates espionage laws. I consider it treason.… The fact is, whatever happened here and whoever gave them that information is guilty, to me, of the most detestable, contemptible crime, and we have to take it seriously.” [Hill, 7/27/2010]