Posted on 12/06/2010 10:56:08 AM PST by ConorMacNessa
(CNN) -- WikiLeaks has published a secret U.S. diplomatic cable listing locations abroad that the U.S. considers vital to its national security, prompting criticism that the website is inviting terrorist attacks on American interests.
The list is part of a lengthy cable the State Department sent in February 2009 to its posts around the world. The cable asked American diplomats to identify key resources, facilities and installations outside the United States "whose loss could critically impact the public health, economic security, and/or national and homeland security of the United States."
The diplomats identified dozens of places on every continent, including mines, manufacturing complexes, ports and research establishments. CNN is not publishing specific details from the list, which refers to pipelines and undersea telecommunications cables as well as the location of minerals or chemicals critical to U.S. industry.
The list also mentions dams close to the U.S. border and a telecommunications hub whose destruction might seriously disrupt global communications. Diplomats also identified sites of strategic importance for supplying U.S. forces and interests abroad, such as in the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf and the Panama Canal.
The cable is classified secret and not for review by non-U.S. personnel.
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And many of your posts violate Chinese law. An extradtion, a fair trial and reeducation camp for you, my friend.
The confluence of events in the world - financial, political, social, and diabolical - make worldwide war a near-certainty within the next five years. And when I say “worldwide” war, I mean larger wars and smaller wars, completely unrelated, going on across the globel. Some will be revolutions. Others will be incursions. Others will be conquests. And we may even see a nuclear exchange somewhere.
Everything is utterly unhinged now. Julian Assange has dealt a crippling blow to the global diplomatic process, which has relied on an enormous amount of Kabuki Theatre to get anything agreed upon. But now the curtain is up and the players are out of costume on the world stage. The audience is laughing now, but Assange just yelled “FIRE!”
Since this element is gone, no one can save face. Before, only the players really knew who were the frauds were on the stage. Now, everyone knows that they’re all frauds. Thus, public pronouncements and “deals” become cynical exercises in front of an audience that can’t be convinced.
And when diplomacy fails, the only option left among nations is force.
There is no question that what the Walkers did was truly treasonous and deliberately did immense harm to national security. But that was providing the codes used to encrypt tactical nuclear submarine communications and is in such stunningly sharp contrast to this stuff that a defense lawyer would have a field day with the case.
I don’t think you need to be American to be charged with espionage.
What about foreign nationals that engage in espionage?
Well, at least it’s not treason, then. That makes him just an enemy.
If he was a citizen of the U.S. it would be. But since he's not we have to get him on something else.
Which I'm sure Zer0 will be right on it.
Assange has BO checkmated now. Assange can prove that the BO regime was the source of all the WikiLeaks.
>> THIS IS TREASON. <<
No, it’s an act of war — and should be treated as such.
Please tell me you forgot the /s tag.
It was dripping to such a degree, I really didn't think it was necessary. My apologies.
How long are we supposed to believe all these thousands of leaks, encompassing national security, corporate strategy and diplomatic relations are the work of one low-ranking soldier acting alone.
American media and publishers violate British libel laws every day. C'est la vie.
The people to hang for treason are the US citizens who provided the material to Assange. And no way was it just some 20 year old doofus Army PFC.
Thanks ODH, These days - I gotta wonder from time to time - even on here. Hope your holiday season is happy and safe ....and warm.
I don't know what Reagan would have done, and neither do you. His record on attacks by radical Islamists is mixed. He also was operating in the pre 9/11/01 world, when the attitude of pretty much all western governments toward Islamofacism was very different.
I do, however, know what Bush 43 would do, because he did it, and he had a strong ally in Tony Blair. Guaranteed if those two men were still in their respective offices, Assange would not be sitting comfortably in England. Neither of them would have simply shrugged their shoulders and allowed this situation to fester for months like Obama has done.
As I posted on another thread, I'm not a fan of congressional hearings since they tend to be nothing but forums for the worst bloviators among us. But this is one time when I hope Congress will act very swiftly after the new year to hold hearings on the entire scope of the WikiLeaks mess.
Why would the State Dept make such a list? Shouldn’t the DoD do this, as they are at least concerned with protecting this nation?
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