Newt Gingrich in BusinessInsider.com


On Technology: Treat WikiLeaks as enemy combatants engaged in terrorism

Q: If you were in charge, how would you handle Julian Assange and WikiLeaks?

A: Information warfare is warfare, and Julian Assange is engaged in warfare. Information terrorism, which leads to people getting killed is terrorism, and Julian Assange is engaged in terrorism. He should be treated as an enemy combatant. WikiLeaks should be closed down permanently and decisively. But even more, how can these documents have been released?

Q: Via a private in the Army.

A: How do you have a system so stupid [that an Army Private can] download a quarter million documents and the system doesn't say [anything]? I mean this is a system so stupid that it ought to be a scandal of the first order. This administration is so shallow, and so amateurish about national security that it is painful and dangerous.

Source: 2010 Fox News interview on Business Insider Dec 5, 2010

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