While the above is vaguely worded it does appear that Spencer and Rustmann are calling for "immediate," "covert" action---to put a stop to Assange's activities. In short, they appear to be saying Obama & Co. has the right to terminate Assange covertly, that is to say, secretly, and, as the word has come to mean in CIA parlance, "violently" as well. It is no surprise that two writers closely tied to U.S. spy agencies appear to be advocating covert action against Assange, but it is a bit of a shock that the Miami Herald would publish this seeming call for blood.
Pardon me for suspecting this hysterical screech for Assange's scalp was published with the blessing of the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA). Rustmann spent 24 years as a CIA payroller and was an instructor in its covert training center, so he would know, if anybody, how to stick Assange's feet into a block of cement and dump him in the Everglades. (Hollywood might even make a movie about it, with Rustmann's intoning, "He sleeps with the alligators.")
Rustmann's former CIA employer, by the way, probably could have taught gangster Al Capone a thing or two. Capone's record for murders at a single "massacre" was a measly seven, famously achieved in Chicago on Saint Valentine's Day, 1929. The CIA's covert killers, who do things globally, triggered a slaughter of 75,000 folks just in El Salvador alone in the 1980s. By some estimates, the CIA has been responsible for overthrowing a score of governments resulting in the murders of millions of people around the world.
Herald Co-author Spencer is a lawyer who represents intelligence officers and owns a long list of credentials that show he acted legally in behalf of George W. Bush, who later killed between 100,000 and 1 million civilians in Iraq, depending on which figures you use. Either way, Capone was a piker beside that cat. For Spencer and Rustmann to holler that Assange has blood on his hands without a shred of evidence to back it up when they have been palsy with some of the really top USA Murder Inc. professionals in the business today is, to say the least, brazen.
What's more, Spencer and Rustmann apparently weren't paying attention to former CIA Director Robert Gates, now our Secretary of Defense, who conceded there was no proof that Assange has blood on his hands. As Scott Horton pointed out in Harper's: "When pressed by the Senate Armed Services Committee, Secretary Gates was forced to admit that these claims were hyperbole--'the leak" did not disclose any sensitive intelligence sources or methods.' Gates went on to acknowledge that there was no evidence of any informant being killed or threatened or even requesting protection as a result of the WikiLeaks publications."
In fact, the charge Rustmann and Spencer make about Assange having "blood on his hands" is true not of WikiLeaks but is true over and over again of the CIA. It is the world's No. 1 gangster organization and it operates at the direction of the White House, and has done so for years. Only Dec. 21st, the Associated Press reported from Santiago that "A Chilean government lawyer is seeking to arrest four retired army officers for the killing of renowned folk singer Victor Jara during the 1973 coup." And which U.S. Agency was behind that violent overthrow? At least 3,000 innocent Chileans were tortured and executed by the generals with the support of the CIA. And Spencer and Rustmann want WikiLeaks shut down? It is the CIA that needs to be abolished.
While Rustmann and Spencer do not cite a single instance of blood on Assange's hands, investigative journalist William Blum in "Rogue State"( Common Courage Press) reels off a long list of CIA violent actions more than 20 pages long. Here are just a few:
Greece: The CIA set up an internal security agency for the neo-fascist government in 1949 that engaged in widespread torture.
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