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Congressman calls for execution of Wikileaks whistleblower

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A Michigan congressman said this week that if an Army private charged with leaking classified material to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks is found guilty, he should be sentenced to death.

Republican Rep. Mike Rogers, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, told a local radio station on Monday that the charges against Pvt. Bradley Manning are worthy of capital punishment.

“We know for a fact that people will likely be killed because of this information being disclosed,” he told Michigan-based WHMI. “That’s pretty serious. If they don’t charge him with treason, they ought to charge him with murder.

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