Good heavens, that's brilliant!
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 12/05/2010 9:23:33 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has circulated across the internet an encrypted “poison pill” cache of uncensored documents suspected to include files on BP and Guantanamo Bay.
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Why is this? Does the government think by not viewing it people will never discover the information? OR is it because they don’t want to risk Wikileaks accessing computers used/owned/controlled by the government?
No. He’s not releasing material showing how corrupt the government is, he’s releasing private wires that people thought were confidential. He has yet to produce a Pentagon Papers type of document.
Also, the type of stuff he’s releasing is mostly from before the Obama administration.
If there was a document produced the showed a crime was committed or that there was some blatant corruption it would be different. The fact is the government, any government, to operate at all needs to be able to have private conversations. Scratch that, and organization needs to be able to have private conversations. If these were business leaks there would probably be prosecution and lawsuits.
Yeah, it is easier for the US government to conspire with other governments to further enslave the American taxpayer.
You’re right about that.
People would be pissed off and the global climate change treaties might be endangered if the peons/serfs knew what kind of bondage the government was trying to sell them into.
I thought the same. We'll have to see what transpires in regards to any future divulgement of information and the dates to which it pertains. That should make it pretty clear that there is at least one other person involved in this dirty work.
As I understand, anyone who is wronged by someone in the company (or thinks that he was wronged) can steal some documents and anonymously send them to WikiLeaks.
It's even easier when WikiLeaks moved to gather and publish government secrets. There are always millions of people who are against the government (regardless of the nature of the government.) Background checks only go so far; and they don't cover events that happened to someone just yesterday. Bradley Manning passed the security checks, but then, once he revealed that he is gay, understandably everyone around him wasn't very appreciative ... in his own words, he was “ridiculed and terrorised” by the US Army. He wanted revenge, and WikiLeaks gladly accepted the materials.
Maybe it's communications between BP and the Obama administration regarding a staged accident to help Obama get legislation, perhaps Cap and Tax, passed.
BP was on board with Cap & Tax. They were going to make a lot of money if that had passed.
Yes, absolutely. My point, perhaps clumsily made, was that the Army isn't monitoring all Google searches (which would be in violation of posse comitatus), but is monitoring google searches on government networks
As a government worker, you are to avoid these cables no matter where you are, or where you view them. That's (at least by the letter of the law) forbidden.
Watch how fast the main stream media dismisses him as an uninformed kook and stops covering him if it turns out he has something on Obama’s eligibility... like his real birth certificate.
Private conversations are where treason, and anti-American activites take place. They need to be honest and straightforward. The only secrecy should be military secrets, deployments, launch codes, war plans, etc.
But in diplomacy, there is almost never a reason for secrecy. There we learn that the US Govt hides Saudi financing for Al Queda, that the US Govt is trying to coerce other nations in Copenhagen to impose cap and trade on AMericans, and that we are knowingly losing hundreds of millions in Afghanistan through embezzelment and have no intent to reign it in. We learn that All of Europe wants us to attack Iran but needs to retain their ability to publically bi@ch about us doing it. DIPLOMATIC secrecy is best exemplified by pre-WWI Europe. Secret deal behind hidden treaty is the European way, not the American way.
State department secrecy seems mostly aimed at doing things against Americas interest, and being able to hide it from the citizenry.
Why should we hide EU duplicity, Saudi payroll of terror, and Afghan corruption. Isnt it utterly obvious by now that our diplomats never win a pro-USA result?
I don’t know. It appears that FReepers want the US government to start murdering people to protect Hillary Clinton.
Get them all out there.
Most of the crap released we already knew.
Point one: State Dept reeks of mismanagement dishonesty and corruption.
Point 2: Nothing much will change.
Point 3: What will change is that the American people will distrust their govt and more importantly the secret govt of the bureacracies even more than they do now.
That “could” lead to some positive changes.
I'm with you, and I smell the Prog Agenda. Why else would he make a particular request for Hillary to resign?
All this would seem to rebound to the benefit of Obama.
It’s amazing to me that the Copenhagen memo provokes some freepers only to think it should remain secret. I for one am HAPPY that State was exposed while performing such treachery behind our backs.
They were trying to enslave us to UN regulations and destroy our economy forever. And don’t forget,, leaks of the east anglia emails were the beginning of the end of AGW. It was a deep danger at that point. Aside from military secrets,,, Government secrecy usually hurts the citizenry.
Don’t forget the lastest thing we peons were not allowed to know,,, that the FED printed and loaned a few trillion to English and German banks. Since their central banks didn’t have to print, their currency stayed artificially strong against ours. The German recovery was on our backs. But im sure they all know best,,,, keep it secret.
Amen,, thats what im waiting for. The big bad BIRTH CERTIFICATE that saves America from Obama. This isn’t all over yet,,, and this may turn out to be something that nobody has expected. This will probably go badly for Obama when more documents are dumped. I have a feeling about it,,, this isnlt an Obama op against Hillary. The dems are not in charge of this. PLUS,,, everyone knows there is something fishy about the one,, but are all afraid to break the story. They might be forced to report on something that breaks worldwide beyond their control. Imagine a foreign government stating it as a known fact that Obama is ineligible.
Something like that will occur soon.
I think its an idealist op against abuse of power. It will probably hurt left and right,,, but i suspect it will mostly hurt rinos and dems before it is all over. And the ego of Assange would love to dethrone a president. This isnt over kids. Killing him won’t stop it. It’s a when,,, not an if.
Drudge’s headlines imply that this release will blow the lid off of the climate change scam. I would really like to see those cables.
I could download 100gb of data off of my company server in a very short amount of time. It would take me forever to develop a few mb from scratch.
Good heavens, that's brilliant!
“How about the cables showing the US was trying to buy off support for Copenhagen?”
That’s great to know. I haven’t seen that story though unsurprisingly.
But I still don’t want to entirely compromise the many good things going on and the people’s lives who are doing them in exchange for that.
The government is not one homogenous evil mass. There are good things going on and bad things going on.
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