Who could have guessed that a group made infamous by its exposure of state secrets and its tumultuous, unstable internal dynamic would end up doing something incredibly, recklessly dangerous? http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...zed-as-org-releases-unredacted-embassy-cables A little late to be distancing yourselves there, eh? There are several thousand designated by the State Department as being at risk for retribution if their identities are discovered, not to mention the usual details about formerly secret U.S. assets and installations. People are going to suffer because of this and Wikileaks knows it the rat bastards.
Who cares two hoots about a bunch of spies, covert killers, subversives and bagmen ? Let's have a look at the creeps.
Yeah...Wikileaks has become the authoritarians best friend, not only leading state police straight to the doorsteps of informants but giving potential informants every reason to keep their mouths shut when it comes to exposing their governments crimes. Fantastic work for a human-rights organization...
Who are these ' potential informants ' looking to for protection ? America ? If they are in the public eye then they will get better protection than any government would give them. If not for public attention, Bradley Manning would have met with an unfortunate accident by now. He grassed up a rotten government.
Good. About time. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/sep/02/julian-assange-arrest-australia-wikileaks
Wikileaks is good for government buisness, it keeps them on their toes. How could the Millitary let the lowest ranking enlited man have access to such top secret classified information. Big time screw up on the millitary's part. Most of the so called people who are at risk here are the screwups who allowed information to leak, and the government leaders who set up the wars in Iraq. Heads should roll.
The sad reality is that Wikileaks has merely confirmed what many have already suspected about our government, which is that our government is for hire and that the notions that we live in a democracy and that our government works in the interest of our nation are both nothing but romantic fantasy... If your problem is with authoritarian governments, you should take task with the US government...it's the most egregious entity in that genre...
Right. The task of capitalist governments is to manipulate democracy and its public whilst making its members and leaders a profit.
Well, The five media outlets that had previously partnered with Wikileaks— The New York Times, The Guardian, El Pais, Der Spiegel and Le Monde better lawyer up big time. Their real problem is legal. This fiasco has alienated virtually every government on the planet. Right now they are aligned as co-conspirators with Wikileaks. For example: the CRITICAL encryption key was published by a Guardian employee — in a book. That idiot move makes him a co-conspirator straight off. He did it with Guardian assets an as a Guardian employee. Their liability would appear unlimited. When the bodies start to fall — they’ll be deemed felonious. Their acts were a key link in the deaths of others. Then, their reckless and feckless security ‘procedures’ put them on the losing end of horrific civil liabilities. It has the potential to break these fish wraps. After all, none are making big money – -most are gushing red ink — and unread black ink. So Wikileaks is not only going to cause the deaths of informants...it will be the death of those newspapers that joined up with them. The State Departments fears are now vindicated.
So, bollox to the State Department and let's support our free press. The priorities couldn't be more clear.
It is truly amazing that when someone illuminates the garbage under the rug that the person who lifted the rug is blamed, not the people who made the mess and swept it under the rug to hide it. Assange has harmed nobody! Since it was sooo incredibly easy to get this information, we HAVE to assume EVERY two-bit intelligence operation and criminal organization in the world had it already, the only people who hadn't seen it was the public!
I don't agree with James Ball. I believe that The Guardian should continue to publish any genuine documents which Wikileaks provides. The route to Openness does not go through Secrecy Pass.
