Posted on 12/08/2010 10:09:10 AM PST by Starman417
While the tax cut issue is taking center stage this story is too important to allow to it to stay on the smaller stage:
In a disclosure of some of the most sensitive information revealed yet by WikiLeaks, the website has released a secret cable listing sites worldwide that the U.S. considers critical to its national security.The locations cited in the diplomatic cable from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton range from undersea communications lines to suppliers of food, medicine and manufacturing materials.
In the message, marked "secret," Clinton asked U.S. diplomatic posts to help update a list of sites around the world "which, if destroyed, disrupted or exploited, would likely have an immediate and deleterious effect on the United States." The list was considered so confidential, the posts were advised to come up with it on their own: "Posts are not/not being asked to consult with host governments in respect to this request," Clinton wrote.
Attached to Clinton's message was a rundown of sites included in the 2008 "Critical Foreign Dependencies Initiative" list. Some of the sites, such as border crossings, hydroelectric dams and shipping lanes, could hardly be considered secret.
But other locations, such as mines, manufacturers of components used in weapons systems, and vaccine and antivenom factories, likely were not widely known. The Associated Press has decided against publishing their names due to the sensitive nature of the information.
This is information warfare. Plain and simple. His goal? To hobble the United States and make the free-flow of information between agencies almost impossible.
The irony is that WikiLeaks' use of technology to post confidential U.S. government documents will certainly result in a less free flow of information. The outrage is that this is Mr. Assange's express intention.~~~Mr. Assange is misunderstood in the media and among digirati as an advocate of transparency. Instead, this battening down of the information hatches by the U.S. is precisely his goal. The reason he launched WikiLeaks is not that he's a whistleblower—there's no wrongdoing inherent in diplomatic cables—but because he hopes to hobble the U.S., which according to his underreported philosophy can best be done if officials lose access to a free flow of information.
In 2006, Mr. Assange wrote a pair of essays, "State and Terrorist Conspiracies" and "Conspiracy as Governance." He sees the U.S. as an authoritarian conspiracy. "To radically shift regime behavior we must think clearly and boldly for if we have learned anything, it is that regimes do not want to be changed," he writes. "Conspiracies take information about the world in which they operate," he writes, and "pass it around the conspirators and then act on the result."
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So while those societies less free, less Democratic, are left to grow stronger our's will become "dumber and slower and smaller." Just what we need in a post-9/11 world eh? How long until this slower and dumber government is rendered incapable of stopping the next 9/11?
Wikileaks has made this Administration look naive, amateurish, and foolish in one fell swoop. They knew of this leak for 6-7 months or more and nothing has been done to stop it. Nothing.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
Now it can be called a “crisis”, which must not be allowed to go to waste. Obama will try to take over the Internet.
UPDATE: HAPPENING NOW..
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2639429/posts
Lorianne has an excellent post
WikiLeaks was part of “the plan” to start with.
SSDD
“Army Major (Hasan) Played Role in Presidential (Obama) Transition”
The Internet is more intelligent and committed—that's why this is happening. Obama,Pelosi, Reid, Sharpton (probably was ordered to come out and attack Rush in order to pay his community serice to Pelosi) and the FCC have no clue how to do or what to do to suppress free speech; so they send out an old barking Chihuahua to make noise.
WikiLeaks has proven to be an unexpected dangerous adversary.
By 2012 there will not much left to America. The communists will have eliminated freedom Americans from organizing or communicating. Without this not much can be done.
Anyone seen the allegation that Assange is a frontman and that Wikileaks is actually a Cass Sunstein / George Soros operation?
Yeah, it comes from Alex Jones / prisonplanet.com.
Still....
See post #9
Wikileaks didn’t make “this Administration look naive, amateurish, and foolish”. This and previous admins were and looked the part long before these leaks.
These leaks happened because the US government has grown weak and corrupt. No one would have dared to do this in China or in the US a few decades ago. This could only happen because the US has begun to tolerate treason.
I'd say, given the two-faced lying hypocrites we have representing us, they are right.
My HOPE is that these documents reveal the scum in our own government (and others), while endangering the least amount of innocent people.
The only thing in danger here is the credibility of the lousy officials we have. SO.... we need to replace them with better(actual) public servants. For those who think this 'exposure' of the truth will harm our standing with the rest of the world, I think we have no where to go but UP.
If Wikileaks is stopped, we lose the chance to find out what the rest of the world already knows anyway.
McDermott, Bonior And Thompson: Did The Democrats and Their Media Allies Make A Deal with Hussein?In September of 2002, Jim McDermott (D-WA), David Bonior (D-MI) and Mike Thompson (D-CA) traveled to Baghdad (on the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq) to meet with Saddam Hussein. Before they left for Baghdad, Jim McDermott made the following public statement: "the President of the United States will lie to the American people in order to get us into this war." After McDermott returned, he continued to make similar statements.
A country that does nothing about its traitors ends up ruled by them.
Wikileaks Wages Cyber Warfare Against The United States & Our Government Does Nothing
BECAUSE THEY ARE ONE IN THE SAME, THEY ARE ALL IN ON IT!
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