Posted on 05/25/2008 10:27:24 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Click here ---> http://88.80.13.160/wiki/US_Boomerang_weapon_system_users_manual
No, I'm sorry, help me out here, please... How do they get away with this crap? Am I missing something? Sheesh!
Great...
I see this was first published by Wikileaks in March and it’s still there. I suspect that this was “leaked” by the US military as part of a disinformation campaign. Or, at least, an enemy might wonder if it was.... Same difference.
I read through the pdf and didn’t see anything particularly damaging. Doesn’t make it right, but still. They’ll get shut down in a heartbeat if they release anything of value because I guarantee our guys are already watching them.
Okay, good point, that makes sense.
Amazing that WikiLeaks appears to “specialize” in leaking mostly American state secrets. Unbelievable gall!
They showed this device in use on Super Weapons on the Discovery Channel some time ago.
Los Angeles announced a similar system almost ten years ago. They said murders would cease immediately because police would be on the scene before the echoes died down. We all know that "gun crimes" in LA are now zero, and their success was so great that not only has no other city adopted it, but the LA pols seem to have forgotten about their great system. [full sarcasm mode engaged]
I just did a quick Google search on “Darpa Boomerang” (I noticed Darpa is mentioned on the cover page of the document) and Darpa has unclassified info on it right on their website.
Wikileaks just trying to make a big deal of it.
http://www.darpa.mil/TTO/programs/boomerang.htm
There were several articles about it too.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=darpa+boomerang&btnG=Google+Search
I looked around with Google more and while the general idea has been discussed all over the place, the operations manual is only at Wikileaks, meaning, that they shouldn’t have posted it. Presumably, if the enemy finds out how it works specifically, they can have a better chance to figure out how to get around it.
Ping.
Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine has been doing this for decades.
THe document isn’t classified at all. It’s not even FOUO (for official use only.)
If it was SECRET, for example every page would have SECRET on it, and every paragraph would have a classification level in parentheses (U), (S), etc.
“They said murders would cease immediately because police would be on the scene before the echoes died down.”
Probably makes a real good indicator of places for them to *avoid*.
Shut down by who? I don't even think they're in the USA. It looks like their main site is in Germany (see bottom of Wikileak site main page). Problem is, if the US Gov takes action against them, they can just move whatever US content servers they have overseas.
Frankly, I'd like to know how they got such materials in the first place. Someone with electronic access to sensitive/classified information is copying it over to unclassified/unsupervised systems. This itself is a violation of US Code 10--10 years in jail/$10,000 fine per violation.
You can thank the Pentagon Papers case. The Supremes ruled that the crime is the leak, not the publishing of the leak.
“Leak of the Week” is what a buddy of mine who used to be in radars and countermeasures called it. This was 20 years ago.
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