Rep. Ron Paul's 9 Questions to Congress About WikiLeaks

Watch the video on the House floor

1. Do the America People deserve to know the truth regarding the ongoing wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen?
2. How can an army private access so much secret information?
3. Why is the hostility directed at Assange, the publisher, and not at our government's failure to protect classified information?
4. Are we getting our money's worth of the $80 billion per year spent on intelligence gathering?
5. Which has resulted in the greatest number of deaths: Lying us into war, or Wikileaks revelations or the release of the Pentagon Papers?
6. If Assange can be convicted of a crime for publishing information that he did not steal, what does this say about the future of the 1st Amendment and the independence of the internet?
7. Could it be that the real reason for the near universal attacks on WikiLeaks is more about secretly maintaining a seriously flawed foreign policy of Empire than it is about national security?
8. Is there not a huge difference between releasing secret information to help the enemy during a time of declared war -- which is treason -- and the releasing of information to expose our government lies that promote secret wars, death, and corruption?
9. Was it not once considered patriotic to stand up to our government when its wrong?