Mike Huckabee Thinks Wikileaks Whistleblower Should Be Executed

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by Ray Rahman | 4:03 pm, November 30th, 2010

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Mike Huckabee‘s new book is billed as “a heartwarming story of a childhood Christmas,” but his discussion during a recent stop on his book tour was far from merry. While promoting the book at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, somebody off-camera asked for Huckabee’s thoughts on the recent Wikieaks release. And so he gave them: “Whoever in our government leaked that information is guilty of treason,” he said. “And I think anything less than execution is too kind a penalty.”

Huckabee joins voices as varied as Hillary Clinton and Glenn Beck with his censure of the Julian Assange-led group, and his call for capital punishment echoes some on the more extreme rhetoric surrounding the issue. The former Arkansas Governor and current Fox News pundit went on to explain why he thinks execution would be justified:

They’ve put American lives at risk. They’ve put relationships that will take decades to rebuild at risk, and they knew full well that they were handling sensitive documents, they were entrusted and anyone who had access to that level of information was not only a person who understood what their rules were, but they also signed under oath a commitment that they would not violate it. They did. And I believe they have committed treason against this country, and any lives they endanger, they’re personally responsible for and the blood is on their hands.

He then turned his attention to the media, accusing the New York Times of showing an “utter, reckless disregard for any responsible journalism by printing something that they know they obtained in a way that is not appropriate.” He ends with a slightly more friendly condemnation, one of sugar, which he chalks up to his belief of doing things “in moderation.”

Watch the moderate Huckabee’s book promotion turn into a grave discussion of treason in the clip below. (h/t Daily Caller)

Glenn Beck, Hillary Clinton, Julian Assange, Mike Huckabee, New York Times, Wikileaks

Harry Flashman

Assange has either deluded himself or is succesfully and deliberately deluding others that this is some kind of high minded moral crusade to right wrongs.

It isn’t.

Its self important children playing cops and robbers, putting their thumbs in the eyes of governments around the world with smug self righteousness. They’re about to find out that annoying civilized nations is one thing. Embarrassinbg countries without the moral core that Britain, France, the U.S., etc. have is quite another.

There are people out there who will express their displeasure with Assange and Company in a much more direct way now that he has foolishly thrown manure in every direction. Look at the list of countries he just spit on and take your pick

I don’t think I’d want to be in his shoes right now. He’s about to run straight into the Rule of Unintended Consequenses.

Oops.
ProgLib

Oh Man! When Huckabee finds out that Glenn beck already told his “not dummies” viewers everything in the leaks months ago he’s gonna go postal.

Watch out Glenn!
milynily

Wait till Assange screws with Russia’s secrets,by by Julian!
Dave Richards

Huckabee is correct. We haven’t had a good treason execution in years.
disenlightened

Dave Richards said:
Huckabee is correct. We haven’t had a good treason execution in years.

Agreed.
Big_F-ing_Deal

“Mike Huckabee Thinks Wikileaks Whistleblower Should Be Executed”

Why, so you can pardon him and he can do it some more like the murderer you let go?
http://none pyrope

milynily said:
Wait till Assange screws with Russia’s secrets,by by Julian!

He won’t dare, he knows Medvedev will have his head on a pike if he so much as utters a squeak about the Russkies.
disenlightened

Big_F-ing_Deal said:
“Mike Huckabee Thinks Wikileaks Whistleblower Should Be Executed”

Why, so you can pardon him and he can do it some more like the murderer you let go?

Are you saying Huckabee is a Democrat?
Some_Dude

disenlightened said:
Are you saying Huckabee is a Democrat?

Google is your friend:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/04/documents-expose-huckabee_n_75362.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/30/AR2009113003928.html
disenlightened

Some_Dude said:
Google is your friend:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/04/documents-expose-huckabee_n_75362.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/30/AR2009113003928.html

You use a liberal web site funded by George Soros and a fading liberal rag to try to prove a negative point about a front-runner for the GOP. Now that’s credibility. What a fool.
Some_Dude

disenlightened said:
You use a liberal web site funded by George Soros and a fading liberal rag to try to prove a negative point about a front-runner for the GOP. Now that’s credibility. What a fool.

I included a Washing Post link too, because I figured you’d act like a typical conservative and put up your blinders just because the source was HuffPo. Thanks for confirming my suspicions.
Jelperman

If anyone deserves to be executed, it’s Hucksterbee. This is the same creep who turned a child rapist named Wayne Dumond loose because one of Dumond’s victims was distantly related to Bill Clinton. Dumond then murdered a woman in Missouri. Hucksterbee also turned Maurice Clemmons loose, and Clemmons murdered four police officers in Washington.

That’s FIVE innocent people murdered because of Mike Hucksterbee. How many have been murdered because of Julian Assange? ZERO!
Sunnyr

What a pandering boob Huckabee is! He is directly responsible for freeing a vicious criminal who later murdered 3 cops in Washington State. Now he wants to EXECUTE some poor twit for leaking documents? Give me a freaking break! He is worse than Slick Willy Bubba Clinton who interrupted his political campaign to go back to Arkansas and sign the execution papers for a retarded boy. They are BOTH hypocrits and panderer’s!
The_Reasonable_Lib

disenlightened said:
You use a liberal web site funded by George Soros and a fading liberal rag to try to prove a negative point about a front-runner for the GOP. Now that’s credibility. What a fool.

And that’s an ad hominem.
The_Reasonable_Lib

Some_Dude said:
I included a Washing Post link too, because I figured you’d act like a typical conservative and put up your blinders just because the source was HuffPo. Thanks for confirming my suspicions.

Don’t you just love when they resort to the ad hominems?
http://Mediaite.com uggugg

I don’t think Huckabee has good Judgment anymore, he has been indoctrinated with Fox-izm from working with Fox-enonmics. Following is what Huckabee should have said;
My jaw dropped when I first heard about Wikileaks. Then I thought about transparency. Is transparency only good for certain honest people or is good for all of us including our leaders? It may piss a lot of people off but better pisssed off than pissed on. Intelligent people will get over it. Sometimes it is better hearing things through the grapevine than being told straight to your face. It gives everyone a chance to think things over in privacy rather than flaring up when hearing it in real time face to face, besides with the grapevine style of spreading information the person being talked about cannot immediately defend his position and that is good, it gives him a chance to think before he defends or speaks out with all the wrong works.
skyfet

This coming from a Church Man, what kind of crap is this. The Nazis would be proud.
disenlightened

The_Reasonable_Lib said:
ad hominem

Nothing ad hominem about it. The two sources are biased and not credible when it comes to reporting objectively on possible GOP candidates. It would be like asking Walter Cronkite to report objectively about the Vietnam War or Richard Nixon.
CosmosDan

Some_Dude said:
Google is your friend:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/04/documents-expose-huckabee_n_75362.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/30/AR2009113003928.html

Sort of pitiful. I love the habit of dismissing everything because the source is biased. Even bias sources sometimes get the factual details right, and this one is pretty simple. The Washington Post article is pretty interesting. Not only did Huckabee commute that sentence but about 3 times as many as any governor before him. I suspect his over reaction in this case is a political calculation to appear tough.
It ain’t working.
CosmosDan

I liked Mike H during the 2008 campaign. He was the only candidate who had the courage to challenge the whole Reverend Wright BS.

Now, he seems to have decided what many politicians decide. He has to be more of a phony to appeal to the masses.
Nachi

I think Huckabee should be executed. Another great GOP, God-worshipping, patriotic, heroic, deep-thinker.
No doubt “walking in the footsteps of Jesus.” Clods.