Posted on 07/26/2010 8:30:00 AM PDT by lbryce
To read this or any article published by the WS in its entirety instead being limited to only the first paragraphs as is often presented by the WSJ, simply cut and paste the title of the article into Google News search field to be provided the full unexpurgatd version.
WASHINGTON—Thousands of secret military documents were released Sunday by a Web-based organization, a gigantic leak of classified information that appeared to present a bleak view of the Afghanistan war and could have a profound impact on the public perception of the conflict.
The release of the documents, which were obtained and made public by the website WikiLeaks, evoked the Pentagon Papers, the secret history of the Vietnam War, which when published contradicted the public narrative of that war and played a role in turning public opinion against it.
Coming at a time when President Barack Obama's Afghanistan strategy has come under increasing criticism, the release will likely stoke criticism of the war effort, as well as spark a debate about the manner in which the information was made available. Journal Community
WikiLeaks allowed three publications, the Guardian newspaper in London, the magazine Der Spiegel in Germany and the New York Times, to have access to the documents for several weeks. Those news outlets released stories in a coordinated manner Sunday.
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If a web-based organization knows these things, how can they be secret?
They were passed to them - all by one (military) man who apparently didn’t like the dispatches that he was reading.
He downloaded years worth & passed them on.
>> If a web-based organization knows these things, how can they be secret?
WikiLeaks somehow obtained classified documents and published them. (Can you say “Treason”?)
>> Here’s a much better method than supporting Google.
Supporting Microsoft is better than supporting Google?
lol. My exact same sentiments. :-)
>Can you say “Treason”?<
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But “treason” is no longer frowned upon as it once was.
Methinks, the administration aided and abetted the leaks. Look who has had time to cull and mull the papers: NYT, Guardian, and Der Spiegel. I wonder why these particular newspapers were selected?
How is this not considered aiding and abetting an enemy sworn to our destruction?
This isn’t Vietnam. The Taliban aren’t the Viet Cong. The Taliban and their Jihadist allies are HERE and they have specific goals way beyond forcing the US to withdraw in defeat from Afghanistan.
Supporting FReepers is better than supporting Google! ;-)
Thanks for the info.
>> Supporting FReepers is better than supporting Google!
You lost me, FRiend.
How does searching with Bing support FReepers, whereas searching with Google does not?
Use Clusty or Dogpile
I got “infected” with Dogpile once, somehow. I consider it malware. No thank you.
>How is this not considered aiding and abetting an enemy sworn to our destruction?<
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Haven’t we been doing this ever since we allowed their immigration?
Start erecting the gallows. This traitor needs to hang.
Fallout ammunition for the left is to use this as an excuse for having the power toe pull the plug on the net. I hope this traitor is not a minority member because it will hurt race relations if he is. He deserves execution. What worse thing can you do than put your fellow soldier at risk?
Sounds like Obama is looking for an excuse to dump the war in Afghanistan, then blame it on Bush.
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