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| WikiLeaks' Assange Offered Docs to Unresponsive White House 'Weeks' Before Release | |
| 2010-07-29 | |
| Missed? Perhaps, but this story of complacency by President Barack Obama's administration has certainly been under-reported thus far. Fox network's judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano discovered a potential lapse in responsibility by the Obama White House. For the broadcast of his July 31 Fox Business Network show "FreedomWatch," Napolitano interviewed Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.org, the so-called "whistleblower site" which released tens of thousands of classified files about the Afghanistan war. During an interview with Shep Smith, Napolitano reported Assange revealed he offered the Obama White House the documents, but they were unresponsive. Napolitano in interview: "STUDIO B" HOST SHEPARD SMITH: You just interviewed Julian Assange. Now Julian Assange is the man who is the founder of WikiLeaks - released these, or on his site was released the 92,000 pages of documents that lead to all this discussion about our complete failures in Afghanistan and thoughts that we need to get out of Afghanistan. He told you something that I considered to be a blockbuster bit of news. Napolitano compared how the Bush administration handled these situations with specifically The New York Times and was able to prevent some things from being revealed. "[E]ven in the Bush administration, when The New York Times wanted to reveal things, the Bush administration negotiated with the White House, delayed the release, talked the times out of releasing proper names," Napolitano explained. But the Obama administration failed to live to up its predecessors' standards. "And apparently, the Obama administration made no such effort and couldn't have cared less, or that's the impression that Mr. Assange gave," Napolitano said.
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