The stakes may be getting higher for accused WikiLeaks leaker Pfc. Bradley Manning. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) said that if Manning is charged and convicted in the leak of 90,000 secret Afghan war documents, he should be executed. The leaker "clearly aided the enemy" and that "may result in the death of U.S. soldiers or those cooperating," Rogers told a radio station in his home state. "If that is not a capital offense, I don't know what is." Is Rogers just grandstanding, or was this leak bad enough to warrant the ultimate punishment? (Watch Rep. Mike Rogers make his case)
Rogers is interested in headlines, not justice: Mike Rogers is just "playing to the cheap seats," says Butler Shaffer at LewRockwell.com. Bradley Manning did a public service by leaking the evidence of "American corruption and criminality in Afghanistan." Rogers just wants to silence those who would speak the truth.
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