Does anyone on this thread know where these leaks are REALLY coming from?
I cannot believe that all of this was in the caring hand of a mere private.
This is a deliberate leak by one or many different people.
I'm not smart enough or sly enough to dream up a possible scenario about these leaks but it is a lot bigger than Assange.
Right! And how fresh this information actually is. This stuff could be so out of date and stale that the person/people leaking it are pleased that these could be considered valid targets. This could also be part of a sting operation to entice someone to move against these phantoms and thereby expose themselves.
I was scanning this thread looking for someone to bring this up. Congress should investigate why a single person would have access to all of the information being posted by wikileaks. You would think that U.S. security would require that most of this information would have been kept in separate repositories where one person would not have access.
A second question I have is “who” requested that the information about U.S. vulnerabilities be gathered for dissemination on this relatively insecure information channel where this underling would have access? Congress should begin proceedings to find out how this occurred. I’m suggesting something far more sinister than Assange, here. I’m suggesting that someone in our government may have made sure that this information was present to be dumped by Wikileaks.
Many people do not realize that the CIA was founded after WWII to gather run of the mill demographics worldwide. Most CIA information is gathered by reading the local newspapers and listening to the local media. The CIA was needed because we found out that we knew very little about our enemies when WWII ramped up. Lack of information means lack of good targets in warfare. Wikileaks is serving that function for our enemies.
Finally, how are we to know what is valid and what might be counterfeited? Anyone with the morals of the Wikileaks founder would certainly be suspect to injecting his/her own “information” into the dump.
Actually, it very well could be. It's been kind of interesting to note that most of these releases have been kinda' yawners so far. One or two juicy little tidbits, but nothing that's on the scale of damage that the Walker's did, for example. Most of this stuff is pretty ordinary traffic that anyone on a SIPRnet connection might be able to access, and lots of people have access to that. I don't think there is any automatic need for a wider conspiracy to have pulled this off... though the investigation certainly needs to consider that, and I'm sure they are.
That is a very good point. I can't believe that one little private had access to and smuggled all of this classified data out.
All that money spent on Homeland Security post-9/11 and a single private in the Army can completely compromise national intelligence security? Something doesn't smell right about this, at all!
But isn't that a big part of what the CIA is tasked to do?
“Does anyone on this thread know where these leaks are REALLY coming from? I cannot believe that all of this was in the caring hand of a mere private.”
The fact that this informatin was leaked tells me enough to speculate. First off, wikileaks was selling information:
WikiLeaks sold classified intel, claims website’s co-founder
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=236345
Selling secrets ‘lucrative,’ but ‘usually cloaked in some kind of public benefit’
Therefore, it might have trained and paid operatives simply to keep the revenue stream. But things heated up at some point; someone fed them information, someone dissatisfied with BO/Pelosi/Reid.
Whoever leaked didn’t mind endangering informants in Afghanistan. Unlikely that was a conservative or zionist. Didn’t mind hurting Hillary. Unlikely to be a democrat moderate or Clintonista. Vindicated Israel. Unlikely to be bin Laden or Islamo-facist. What remains? A leftist nitwit, most likely a disgruntled former Obama supporter who is now disillusioned.