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Deroy Murdock: WikiLeaks What-Ifs

[New York commentator Deroy Murdock is a nationally syndicated columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.]

On Christmas night 1776, George Washington and his troops silently set out east from Pennsylvania and crossed the Delaware River into New Jersey. There they pounced on snoring Hessian mercenaries at their barracks in Trenton. Washington’s surprise attack vanquished the pro-British unit. This unexpected victory rejuvenated the American Revolution just when the cause looked lost.

Had they been alive back then, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning (alleged purveyor of some 250,000 secret diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks) might have forwarded Washington’s covert plans to Julian Assange, WikiLeaks’s founder. Assange would have galloped on horseback through Trenton’s snow-clogged streets yelling, “The Yankees are coming! The Yankees are coming!” — all in order to “inform the public.”...
Read entire article at National Review