On Fox News, Bob Beckel said “A dead man can’t leak stuff. This guy’s a traitor, he’s treasonous, and he has broken every law of the United States. And I’m not for the death penalty, so … there’s only one way to do it: illegally shoot the son of a bitch.”

When asked about WikiLeaks in an interview, Vice President Biden said that Assange is “closer to being a high tech terrorist than, than the Pentagon Papers.”