Posted on 11/29/2010 2:55:14 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
In Russia, the motherland of conspiracy theories, almost no one believes that Julian Assange and WikiLeaks are free agents acting on a desire to crack official secrecy and broaden the horizons of public awareness.
Although the more than a quarter-million secret US diplomatic cables spilled into cyberspace by WikiLeaks on Sunday include just 3,337 reports prepared by the US Embassy in Moscow, many Russians are already viewing it as part of a plot by American hardliners to discredit President Obama and, perhaps, to undermine his fragile efforts to reset US-Russia relations. ....
I have no doubt that this was a prepared operation, probably by [the] US secret services," says Alexei Mukhin, director of the independent Center for Political Information in Moscow. I find it improbable that US authorities couldn't deal with one guy (Mr. Assange) if they really wanted to. No, this is clearly being done as an instrument of destabilization," he says.
The most popular theory is that the massive outing of classified State Department communications is designed to make Obama look weak, inept, and unable to control his own government machinery.
This will obviously damage Obama and his policies, says Sergei Strokan, a foreign affairs columnist with the Moscow business daily Kommersant. Obama made a strong emphasis on international affairs, outreach to the Muslim world, and resetting relations with Russia. These leaks show that many diplomats take a privately cynical view of those goals, or are actually working at cross purposes to them. All these disclosures will be a serious blow to America's new image in the world, and will only undercut Obama.
Mr. Strokan adds that coming just after the mid-term elections in the US, the leaks are likely to benefit Obamas Republican opponents.
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
Yup - this is plainly obvious. israel is going to have to do the heavy lifting here.
Is anyone stupid enough to believe that one gay Army PFC, was given unsupervised access to all of this info? Has anyone heard of “Need to Know”? Clearance is irrelevant in this case.
These leaks were released from the highest levels, in the White House itself.
If there were Americans running this show, and they actually disliked the leaks, this guy at Wiki would have fallen down a nice long set of stairs by now.
Russians understand conspiracy... who knows, they might be right. It's a question of who benefits. Who gets stronger - who gets weaker? We know this much - whatever group is doing this is in bed with the New York Times... they were ready and willing to publish before the information was released...(right?)
Great line Tick!
It’s Sarah Palin’s fault. After all, she bought all those votes for Bristol on DWTS. Is there no end to her tyranny!?
Bammy, clearly does not consider wikileaks to be a major threat to his agenda otherwise he would have done more to stop it two leaks ago. The man hates this country.
How could anyone do that? It would be sooo difficult to achieve such an objective. s/
No. It also makes Obambi look inept at every turn and will bring about opposition to his program of mulim appeasement.
I suspect that Putin states the leaks look designed to make Obama look weak ad destabilise the current (Obama/Reid/Pelosi lead) government ... because he planned them that way.
The Soros/Chinese axis of power competes with the former soviet axis of power, and needs to be brought down a peg.
Not that Pooty would ever be our friend, just that the Chinese are rising in power too fast.
That is the theory I see fitting the most facts that are available right now.
they have it all wrong, this is just Obama playing 3 dimensional chess!
ROFL!!!!
I’d be very careful about pissing off the Russians if I was Assange.
Or Phyverce Recology.....who knows?
If you are a Black Liberation Socialist anti-capitalist with a wife who hates the country and your political party was just wiped out in the latest elections and along with that your chances of reelection, if you had nationalized the health/automotive/mortgage/scholarship industries, what is left but to expose your nation's most sensitive secrets and ensure the ruination of your country's international diplomacy for decades?
yitbos
this is simply csmonitor spin to protect obama, by accusing its right wingers out to hurt obama
The leak was done months ago. The responsible party is a "fan" of Biden and FLOTUS on Facebook among other Left Wing entities as well as an openly gay advocate for ending DADT and related causes. I suppose he could be the ultimate patsy but that would nearly be too fantastic to be believed.
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