Pentagon hunting for Julian Assange?

[malaise]

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/pentagon-searches-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange/story?id=10886655
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American officials said Pentagon investigators are convinced that Assange is in possession of at least some classified State Department cables leaked by a 22-year-old Army intelligence specialist, Bradley Manning of Potomac, Maryland, who is now in custody in Kuwait.

The cables, which date back over several years, went out over interagency computer networks available to the Army and contained information related to American diplomatic and intelligence efforts in the war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq, the diplomat said.

American officials would not discuss the methods being used to find Assange, nor would they say if they had information to suggest where he is now. "We'd like to know where he is; we'd like his cooperation in this," one U.S. official said of Assange.
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Truth will out

[Pavulon]

1. He should hope he is in the US, where the constitution applies

he is playing a game with people who have no reservation about recursively destroying him and anyone participating in this event.

[kenny blankenship]

3. I doubt that would matter anymore, if they had decided he was that much of an irritant

What's a bigger step for Big Brother? A.) Deciding it's perfectly OK for the President or his officers to mark a US citizen for death outside our borders. Or B) deciding a foreigner on US soil needs to take a Jeep ride to the Sonoran desert south of the border and then quietly fall in a hole, or else take a long trip by helicopter over deep water wearing a cement parachute?

Once you start killing your own without trials or other pesky hindrances, anything else is a gimme.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

2. Somehow I doubt he has the only copy of those items.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. They "want his coopreration". Break out the waterboards.

[Are_grits_groceries]

5. I said when I read about this that I hope he knew where to hide

and hide got. I get the willies thinking about who might be after him.

[pscot]

6. WTF

Why is the pentagon sort of routinely hunting people in foeign countries? That just seems seriously wrong.