A double standared at the Justice Department...

I believe Wikileaks is a disinformation program run by some intelligence agency(probably Israeli), but they are going after the patsy Assange to promote the idea of internet censorship in the media...

After AIPAC Defendants Walk, Holder to Prosecute Wikileaks?

Last May, Attorney General Eric Holder dropped the federal prosecution against two AIPAC employees for their part in an unauthorized leak of Pentagon files. But, now, the Justice Dept. is reportedly pushing ahead with an Espionage Act prosecution of Julian Assange for the same acts. Yet, unlike AIPAC's Rosen and Weissman, with Assange there's no evidence that Assange was actually involved in an espionage ring. Has this Administration completely lost all sense of Rule of Law, as well as its claim to a higher moral purpose than its predecessor?

Eighteen months ago, DOJ concluded that no crime could be proved under the 1917 Espionage against the AIPAC recipients of classified information for distributing secret documents to the press -- so, one must ask, what's different about the Wikileaks case?

The Weissman and Rosen case actually involved foreign espionage.

In the AIPAC-OSP case, Weissman and Rosen, actively conspired with Lt. Col. Larry Franklin, who was the Iran desk officer assigned to the notorious Office of Special Plans (OSP). That unit was the creation of Paul D. Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, and served as the Iraq war-planning unit in the Pentagon's Near East and South Asia Affairs section, run by Deputy Undersecretary of Defense William Luti, under Abram N. Shulsky. OSP was responsible for cooking up documents to make a case for war during the Bush Administration.

According to the indictments, in 2002-03, FBI wiretaps picked up communications from Israeli intelligence officers working out of the Embassy in Washington, DC with Rosen and Weissman at AIPAC. Operating under the direction of the Mossad Chief of Station, Naor Gilon, these AIPAC employees received U.S. classified documents without authorization.

In the prosecution that followed, only the U.S. military officer, Lt. Col. Larry Franklin, who released the classified documents was fully prosecuted, sentenced and imprisoned - as, indeed, he should have been. The other indicted defendants were allowed to walk last May after DOJ concluded there is no Official Secrets Act under which they might be successfully convicted in the U.S.

Link:
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/leveymg/540