Posted on 11/26/2010 3:56:41 PM PST by lbryce
Wikileaks is about to drop its biggest-ever bombshell – some 2.7-million confidential diplomatic cables from US embassies around the world – and, although US credibility is likely to take the worst hit, much of the collateral damage may end up in Moscow.
"Among the countries whose politicians feature in the reports are Russia, Afghanistan, and former Soviet republics in Central Asia. But other reports also detail potentially embarrassing allegations reported to Washington from US diplomats in other regions, including East Asia and Europe," Reuters reported Thursday, noting that this huge document dump is expected as early as next week.
Dispatches sent by embassy workers often contain detailed accounts of private conversations with local politicians, businesspeople, journalists, dissidents, academics and public figures. The anticipated blizzard of dispatches from the US Embassy in Moscow to Washington is likely to publicly reveal the raw workings of US diplomacy on the ground and its range of contacts within Russian society. It may also detail the process by which the State Department forms its judgments about the Kremlin and its policies.
Some sensitive topics may include corruption among Russia's top politicians, details of political infighting, deeply critical views expressed to US diplomats by Russians in the opposition, as well as unflattering portraits of Kremlin leaders and their habits.
Russian diplomats contacted Friday said they don't expect the contents to be sensational or politically damaging to the Kremlin, but suggest that the breach of confidentiality might do untold damage to future US-Russian relations.
"As a diplomatic researcher, I must say that I'm really curious to see this material," says Yevgeny Bazhanov, deputy rector of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Diplomatic Academy, which trains Russian diplomats.
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
Assange definitely has some sort of death wish. He so despises the US that he'd antagonize, Russia, raising the risk of him being dealt with to exponential effect just so he can release more dirt on the US.
I'd like to think that soon all that Assange will be leaking is his very life ebbing out and away.
FR:10-26-10:WikiLeaks Ready to Drop a Bombshell on Russia. But Will Russians Get to Read About it?
The Russians may have the guts to fix this problem, since our government obviously doesn’t.
Nothing to worry about - after all, Obama promised us the world would love us again when he was prez.
they might find this guy in a dead in a room with a bunch of underaged, eastern-European hookers.
That may be the purpose of this story.
I think Hillary leaked this to embarrass Obama. There is no way this was not planned. Either Hillary, or Obama himself in order to reduce the credibility of the US.
This was not only a planned release, but things
were removed. In the first set, everything after
Pres. Bush was taken out, if memory serves.
Don’t we have counter-intelligence agencies to detect security breeches?
Some sensitive topics may include corruption among Russia's top politicians, details of political infighting, deeply critical views expressed to US diplomats by Russians in the opposition, as well as unflattering portraits of Kremlin leaders and their habits.Well, I guess the jackoff running WikiLeaks will be dead soon. Thanks lbryce.
These are all supposedly secret govt. docs. How are they coming into the hands of these enemies of the U.S.?
This began during the ocarter (obama)admin. Is our own government feeding these damaging documents to these people?
Is it a stretch to wonder if people who condider themselves to be enemies of America are now in control of these branches of government and are intentionally releasing this stuff to harm their own country?
This stuff is not coming from just a few moles- it's a recurring document dump.
Where is the effort to stop it? Do our present leaders want it to stop?
Not that I don't know the answer to my questions....
We need to start making big big noise about this.
AV
Shenannigans!
Why is this not considered treason? A real man would take care of this traitor, oh yeah, we have a pansy in the White House.
...in my mind there is a most palpably sinister stench related to Wikileaks imminent release that is very much in line with, reminiscent of, the illegitimate, bastard, White House Occupier's over-all nauseatingly obsequious, pusillanimously apologetic,socialist,communist America-hating persona unmistakable in its scheme to unleash as much destruction, damage to our country as possible.
The news says the US government suspects some 23 year old Army intelligence person had access while stationed in Iraq and downloaded all these secret docs. He then slipped them to WikiLeaks.
This sounds absurd. How does some jr. Army intelligence officer get access, why aren’t our secret files better protected and why can someone with access to a government computer get into all these files. Shouldn’t such files be off line and access only granted by special codes and permissions. Plus, when the download exceeds just one or two docs, why isn’t an alarm sounded. Any IT guy with a 2-year certificate could put in better safeguards in a small business system than what our government seems to have.
So someone or some cabal with the plan to sink the US inside or out must be to blame, not the 23 year old fall guy.
There MUST be some way to ID the Perp.
Then hang him.
I wish Reagan had presented them with one of those things. They'd have gingerly hustled it out of the room and had technical specialists tear it to pieces while TAKING GREAT CARE NOT TO PUSH IT.
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