Shining a light on 45 years of US 'diplomacy'

[SlyPokerDog]

WikiLeaks puts all its US cables online, unredacted

WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange was at the centre of another political storm yesterday after more than 251,000 US diplomatic cables were published in their original form on the internet for anyone to read.

No attempt was made to redact the cables to protect whistleblowers or other innocent people named in them, provoking fears that some lives could be endangered.

The cables were published in batches, sorted by country, including 34,687 relating to Iraq, 29,431 from China, 19,714 from Afghanistan, 13,209 from Pakistan and 6,732 from Cuba.

Their appearance was announced on Twitter, with messages encouraging followers to read the cables and share what they find. One WikiLeaks tweet declared that it was "shining a light on 45 years of US 'diplomacy'."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-its-us-cables-online-unredacted-2348388.html

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Dick move.

 

[maxiep]

An ad hominem attack just because I don't like him.

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[BrianFromWA]

An ad hominem attack just because I don't like him.

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My gut feel is that if this was "wikileaks china or russia or Iran", assange would be dead

 

[SlyPokerDog]

My gut feel is that if this was "wikileaks china or russia or Iran", assange would be dead

Keep leaking names of our agents and assets and someone is going to be knocking on his door.

 

[jlprk]

You guys are just embarrassed to discover that the McCarthy Era U.S. government fully believed in the Abominable Snowman.

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/wa...ds-believed-in-yeti?google_editors_picks=true

 

[MARIS61]

My gut feel is that if this was "wikileaks china or russia or Iran", assange would be dead

A very good reason to rejoice in his actions and support him.

Everybody says they want transparency in government, but when someone actually delivers they threaten his life.

 

[BrianFromWA]

I'd submit that to not look hypocritical, you might transparently post a harmless little thing like your government-issued social security number. Or better yet, have someone steal it from you, and post it on the internet along with all of your clients'.

Additionally, I'd imagine that when people want transparency in government it's to make sure things are going the way they're supposed to. No back-door bribing of officials, corruption, etc. Breaking laws pertaining to national security and foreign policy is NOT the way things are supposed to go.

 

[jlprk]

WikiLeaks is discovering much greater crimes than "back-door bribing of officials, corruption, etc." that have been covered up by the government.

The moral high ground of law crumbles when it covers up illegal acts of war, like this one discovered in the current WikiLeaks batch.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/08/...raqi-children-in-us.html?storylink=MI_emailed

 

[barfo]

I'd submit that to not look hypocritical, you might transparently post a harmless little thing like your government-issued social security number.

Ok, I've posted my SSN here:

It's completely transparent.

barfo