The new Wiki warfare - NYPOST.com

The new Wiki warfare - NYPOST.com: "The recent WikiLeaks debacle, which will result in American, allied and Afghan deaths, drives home how inadequate our antique laws on war are in the new millennium.

We live in a lawless age, when it comes to our security. A hypernarcissist such as WikiLeaks' Julian Assange puts thousands of lives at risk by e-publishing classified documents, and we have no legal answer.

Every day, foreign powers and rogue players attack our nation's computer networks, attempting to steal secrets, plant sleeper programs or just create havoc. We have no practical legal framework for counterattacks. We haven't even decided when cyberattacks amount to acts of war.

Even regarding physical acts of terrorism, our laws lag grotesquely -- hence the repeated delays in bringing the world's most vicious butchers to trial.

It's as if, in the age of the automobile, we relied on traffic laws from horse-and-buggy days. Absent appropriate legal codes, our government turns to lawyers without laws.

The lawyers, in turn, fish through laws governing yesteryear's concerns -- and apply them restrictively to keep their departments out of the headlines.

And the cyberassaults go on, 24/7. Security leaks haunt the Internet (and our amoral media). Terrorists kill, then sue us. In the first case, we take our beatings and slap on bandages. In the second, we huff, puff and do nothing. In the third case, an apprehended terrorist gets better medical care than an out-of-work American.

Even the civil laws and military codes we do have on the books are not enforced. If found guilty, that Army private who allegedly passed over 90,000 classified documents to WikiLeaks should get the 'full Rosenberg,' a shortened life and a hot exit. Instead, he'll do a few years at most -- at most -- then get a book contract. (Can't wait for the movie!)