Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen are on the attack against Wikileaks, particularly its founder Julian Assange. While they are unable to point to any specific deleterious effect of the leaks (other than the exposure of the morass in which we find ourselves), they nonetheless are claiming that he has blood on his hands.
Just a couple of days ago, the Defense Department disagreed with its head guy:
The Pentagon is telling NBC’s Michael Isikoff that a special assessment team looking over the WikiLeaks Afghanistan war logs has found nothing that could damage national security.
What’s amazing is that these two can accuse someone else of having blood on their hands with respect to the war in Afghanistan, a war whose needless continuance they have overseen and defended, while many American soldiers, and of far less moment, but still worth pointing out, many Afghans have died needlessly. All the perfumes of Arabia can’t wash the blood from their hands, but without a hint of irony they accuse Assange. Perhaps they’ve taken a lesson from the bloody handed Lady MacBeth, with Assange playing the role of the hapless grooms:
I’ll gild the faces of the grooms withal; For it must seem their guilt.
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