At approximately 6pm on Wednesday, Amazon ousted wikileaks.org from its servers after concerted and aggressive political pressure from America’s Homeland Security Committee. The move came after three solid days of ‘Cablegate’ – the largest intelligence leak in history. 251,287 dispatches from more than 250 US embassies and consulates, to be published slowly but surely in the weeks and months ahead. Among them are allegations of corruption, cover-ups and secret collusion between US and UK officials; dirty tactics exposed on a grand scale. Politicians, diplomats and corporations across the world must now be trembling. Could they be next?
Read the complete article at Open Democracy:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/ryan-gallagher/wikileaks-truth-is-not-treason
Stumble It!
It ain't over till it's over. -- Yogi Berra
And it's only just begun...........
Interesting hearing Hillary Clinton claim that this will cost lives, the mother who voted against the land mines treaty, the woman who voted to continue blowing the legs off children, as if land mines won't cost lives. What an abysmal hippocrite!
Besides, diplomats etc. shouldn't be privy to the kind of information that can harm our troops. Need to know and all that.
I disagree,the information released can threaten the lives of troops and agents on the ground,
Except for that the Pentagon study that said it hadn't.
give plans and target information to the bad guys
Such as. . .? Which plans and coordinates? I see in the paper all the time "Canadian troops mount offensive in Panjawai". How is that any different? (Besides being nearly a year out of date on the Wikileaks site)
not including helping out a treasenous intelligence officer who was trusted with that information,
And that is Wikileaks fault because ______? Was Watergate Nixons fault, or Woodward and Bernsteins' fault?
line has been crossed.
Which line?
Harper's attempts to give the US authority over Canadians in Canadian territory, is treason.
Moore said , if wikileaks had been around earlier, and warned the world about 911 and the lack of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, millions of lives would have been saved.
This far out weighs any complaint about lives being put at risk by wikileaks at the present, and in the future.