Posted on 12/11/2010 12:19:33 PM PST by TheConservativeCitizen
As the Wikileaks saga continues to unfold I can’t help but recall the scene in the film Sneakers where Martin “Marty” Bishop (Robert Redford) and Cosmo (Ben Kingsley) discuss the “code breaker.”
Cosmo: "There’s a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it’s not about who’s got the most bullets. It’s about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think… it’s all about the information!"
There is another scene in the movie where Marty utters the phrase “no more secrets.” And that is increasingly what we are approaching as the global pseudo-anarchist organization Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange wage their own private war against the United States and its allies.
By their own deeds and actions this band of internet information warriors have taken it upon themselves to enact that creed of “no more secrets” and have set about deliberately undermining the US government as well as a large number of other organizations, corporations, and even individuals. When it comes to the United States of America, this is what happens when people begin to believe their own propaganda that those who dare to confront and militarily engage rogue regimes, mass murderers, and blood-splattered Islamic barbarians are somehow evil and worthy of defeat.
It is a twisted view of the world that defends genocidal regimes like that of the Husseins or the fundamentalist berserkers who seek to re-establish the caliphate and offer the infidel West three choices; submission, conversion, or death while viewing those who oppose such monsters as worthy of humiliation and defeat.
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““no more secrets.” And that is increasingly what we are approaching”
No, it isn’t. Every other country in the world has secrets. Only the US, which has many quasi-foreign agents in high political office, does not.
As long as Wikileaks's passwords aren't secret, either. . .
What? Don't like that? Secret for thee and not for me? Don't that's going to last. Wikileaks may not know it, but they are hastening a return to a familiar, and more primitive way of life: No privacy. A government can say, "It's true that I don't know your password. But I know you, and that's enough. I can just kill you. That will teach your survivors the value of discretion, now, won't it?"
This is definitely a form of warfare, but this is not just against the United States and their allies. This is a bid for supremacy by these information warriors.
It just so happens that we(the West) are the easiest target because we are an open society.
If they were to somehow cripple us they would then turn their sights on the closed societies that have advanced technologies.
These are the Somali pirates all over again, except that these are high tech pirates. I don't see how we can defeat them. The best we can do is to higher our own pirates to battle them.
Won’t somebody just leak the damn birth certificate?
openleaks.org
Launches tomorrow. New concept, they won't publish anything by direct link. They will offer the leaks to news organizations only.
It’s in Zeros basement, under the foundation, in a solid steel case, and only he knows the combination...lol
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals... to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wikileaks saga ends...people move on. The Administration just plugging the bigger leaks in damage control was easier than trying to rebuild the whole dam. Dropping Julian into the laps of Scotland Yard is far easier than trying to CONTINUE to drum up rhetoric of trying him for treason being he was not a citizen of the US. Plus more public focus drawn to the silencing the media like Rush etc. The FCC standing in the shadows.
Plus, Hillary clearly said in an interview with the BBC in regard to Private Manning that he could only gotten into where he did with the help of the Department of Defense.
QUESTION: Did you ever think this could happen? Did you know your cables were read so widely and could be made public like that?
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, Kim, unfortunately, this theft of this confidential information by the young private was done under the authority of the military, obviously the Defense Department, which had a legitimate reason for wanting more access to information. But it wasn’t handled appropriately. I think that is clear. I’ve called for a full investigation
Interview With Kim Ghattas of BBC December 3, 2010
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/12/152339.htm
Does anyone else find it disturbing that the USA is behaving worse than China in trying to squelch this Media outlet?
Yep.
Apparently Fascism is the new black.
All diplomatic and intelligence agencies in the United States and friendly nations who have been attacked by both these anti-American anarchist leakers, document stealers and hackers, must develop a three fold in number array of of bogus Wikileaks "mirror sites" identical down to the finest details, virtually indistinguishable from the real Wikileaks. Then put up bogus US cable after bogus US cable, purporting the oddest information out of the archives of State Department files, easily debunked. Once thousands upon thousands of these bogus diplomatic files are out there, expose them, prove them wrong, and accuse Wikileaks of making up information, assert that the information flow has been completely compromised and that any Wikileak-sponsored or Wikileak-like sponsored US diplomatic cable is at risk of being forged, therefore all cables must be suspect. Draw the comparison to Wikipedia where the information may NOT be correct, because anyone can edit. Just flood the cyber market with said disinformation. It won't do to take down Wikileak's mirror sites now carried in the hundreds, and even by the Government of Bolivia (political enemy of the USA via President Evo Morales), so one just must sew chaos, confusion, instability, doubt and lack of veracity on the whole process. This of course will take hundreds of specialists in black ops and forgeries, giving up their Christmas holidays, but flood the international public mindset with all kinds of baseless Wikileaks counterfeits, and you will compromise the legitimacy of their entire movement and modus apparandi. You could have a cable for example have a foreign diplomatic post say they are readying for an April 2006 visit by Vice President Cheney, but then in reality it will be shown that during those dates, Cheney had no oveseas travel planned and was elsewhere at the same time as the forged cable talking about his visit to a US outpost. Then call in the chips and let the whole system implode on itself through lack of integrity.
Nothing to go wrong there.
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That's odd. These are STATE DEPARTMENT CABLES, and Hillary is SECRETARY OF STATE.
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