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From Jim Geraghty's Morning Jolt:

Why Do I Suspect a President Palin Would Treat Julian Assange Like a Halibut?

Assange is the lowlife who runs Wikileaks, the faux journalistic site that's releasing millions of formerly secret government documents, and if you saw a recent episode of Palin's Alaska reality show you'll know what the halibut reference means.

Palin has commented on the whole Wikileaks problem:

"First and foremost, what steps were taken to stop WikiLeaks director Julian Assange from distributing this highly sensitive classified material especially after he had already published material not once but twice in the previous months? Assange is not a 'journalist,' any more than the 'editor' of al Qaeda's new English-language magazine Inspire is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands. His past posting of classified documents revealed the identity of more than 100 Afghan sources to the Taliban. Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al Qaeda and Taliban leaders?"

In the good old days Assange would suddenly develop a mysterious case of lead poisoning - probably two or three times to the back of the head - by an assailant who would then disappear into the mist. And nobody would care.  It's the price you paid for this kind of treachery.  If he tried something like this against the Israeli government his life span would be roughly equivalent to that of an Iranian nuclear scientist, and those have been dropping like flies lately.

According to the news this morning Assange continues to live but his site is under a powerful Denial of Service attack that has basically made it inaccessible in the US and Europe.  We can play tough too.

As I said yesterday I have really mixed feelings on this whole Wikileaks thing.  On one hand a government needs to have secrets, but on the other hand this could end up being a good thing since it takes the masks off how everybody really feels about everybody else, and I think that could be a healthy resetting of world relationships.  Sometimes honesty is the best policy and rather than pretend we like all these other world leaders, perhaps it's best once in awhile to let them know the truth.  We'll see.

It may make for some awkward moments in future summit meetings, but that's okay too.