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 Pentagon Clamps Down on WikileaksPosted on Aug 5, 2010
The Pentagon attempted to reassert control in its power struggle with WikiLeaks on Thursday by demanding that the online whistle-blower relinquish about 15,000 unreleased Afghan war records and delete information already posted to the site—what the Pentagon calls “doing the right thing” in this case. —KA
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By fearnotruth, August 6, 2010 at 8:37 pm Link to this comment
they have to do this in order to lend additional credibility to this staged cointel
Report this“leak” - clearly designed to set the stage for shifting the war out of Afghanistan
and into Pakistan and/or Iran - the Guardian and the New York Times do not
publish this sort of stuff unless it’s part of a psy-op — just as the Pentagon Papers
were a psy-op to whitewash the CIA and it’s Operation Phoenix
By beachboy, August 6, 2010 at 11:27 am Link to this comment
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Americans should be outraged by the audacity of the US government lying to the
American people, concealing it, and then punishing individuals who try to report
the truth. This is a bold display of anti-democracy in action.
It is mind-blowing that citizens would actually support efforts to undermine
Report thisWikiLeaks or other whistle blowers who hold politicians accountable for their anti-
American actions.
By Jim Yell, August 6, 2010 at 5:56 am Link to this comment
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I think as an American I should know what my government is doing in my name, so why does the government keep secrets from Americans? It is like finding that my Bank is keeping my money secret from me and telling me that it isn’t any of my business what my bank account is.
We are rather quickly declining into a military-corporate dicataorship, which is what happened in Germany and Italy amongst others prior to WWII.
As history shows all the sordid manipulations our government did to protect Nazi Industrialists and even war criminals from justice in a trade for information and other things, we must at this point wonder who indeed won WWII? If they hadn’t have hidden behind National Secrets we might have woke up and stopped some of the crimes committed in our names years ago.
One thing we should remember collectively is that regardless of our individual beliefs and moral sense, what our government does even in secret will become our guilt too. If we keep electing the officials who work to destroy democracy here and in the world, than we shall be guilty as a group for the crime.
Report thisBy wildflower, August 5, 2010 at 7:03 pm Link to this comment
RE KA: “what the Pentagon calls “doing the right thing” in this case.”
If only the Pentagon had done “the right thing” when Bush/Cheney spewed the great “WMD Lie,” America would not be in this kind of mess today.
Report thisBy PatrickHenry, August 5, 2010 at 1:06 pm Link to this comment
I hope it all goes viral.
Report thisBy FRTothus, August 5, 2010 at 1:06 pm Link to this comment
It seems to me that Wikileaks has already done the “right thing” by releasing this chronicle of US crimes. The Pentagon can go fuck itself.
Report thisBy diman, August 5, 2010 at 12:20 pm Link to this comment
“We hope they will honor our demands,” he told reporters, adding that the only rightful owner of all the classified material in WikiLeaks possession was the U.S. government
This is it, you got it? Tax-paying, regularly voting citizens, it is the U.S. Government peroperty, and the rest of you can go fuck yourselves, this is how your government serves you, no accountability, no responsibility taken, no nothing, it is about containing the situation now and preventing it from growing into a bigger scandal, it is more than 20Gb worth of information over there and people who downloaded the material are still reading, who knows what else will emerge.
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