Posted on 07/31/2010 8:05:43 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
Much fanfare has been made by the media about WikiLeaks’ classified document dump. According to one website, “The reports come from the US Army with the exception… Special Forces activities.”
Much of the reports are daily logs posted on the Deportment of Defense’s Secret Internet ProtocolRouter Network or SIPRNET. The highest level of classification on SIPRNET is secret. The current speculation is that information was downloaded and burned onto a CD ROM by Pfc. Bradley Manning.
Pfc. Manning has been charged for leaking a video showing a helicopter strike in 2007 and is currently under investigation regarding the documents provided to WikiLeaks. Army investigators don’t believe that he has acted alone.
The documents, as downloaded directly from WikiLeak, have been altered which in itself creates a creditability issue and begs the question: what else has been changed?
The website insisted that the alteration was done to protect the whistle blower. WikiLeak has a clear and dangerous agenda. Its founder Julian Assange told Der Spiegal "This material shines light on the everyday brutality and squalor of war. The archive will change public opinion and it will change the opinion of people in positions of political and diplomatic influence."
Although we have not seen much about this in the mainstream media, Assange has vowed to release an additional 15,000 documents on line.
Helping our enemies…
According to a Pentagon Assessment team, the files didn’t produce anything shocking or harmful to U.S. national security or the American troops in Afghanistan. Most of the 92,000 documents are not considered newsworthy or historically significant.
According to the Times of London, however, the leaked documents reveal the names of many Afghans collaborators as well as their village locations. Al Qaeda now has the names of informants as well as where to find them…
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This GI who leaked these classified documents should be charged with treason and then shot by firing squad.
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