Rep. Marshall: Obama Should Block Any More WikiLeaks Docs
On Tuesday's "Washington Unplugged," Rep. Jim Marshall (D-GA) said the White House should be prepared to go to court to block the release of additional intelligence documents on the war in Afghanistan on the website WikiLeaks.
"If the White House has legal basis to do so, it should seek an injunction to ban the release. It ought to move forward with the tools it has legally available to it to keep these additional documents from being released," Marshall told CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford.
"We need to track down whoever did this, we need to prosecute them, put them in jail for a very long time just as an example to others that you're not free to release this stuff. But on balance, given the reports we've seen so far I don't think a great deal of harm has been done by this release, not to say that it wasn't absolutely wrong."
Marshall shared President Obama's sentiment that the 90,000 pages of intelligence reports released on WikiLeaks Monday didn't reveal anything new. "There's no bombshell here. This is not Abu Ghraib. It's not the Pentagon papers," Marshall, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said.
Marshall, who is up for re-election in Georgia, said domestic issues like the economy and health care would be more important in November than the effort in Afghanistan.
New York Times' chief political reporter Jeff Zeleny and CBSNews.com's Stephanie Condon were also guests on Tuesday's "Washington Unplugged."
