Re Pentagon: “It’s not surprising t the Pentagon is conducting “a very robust investigation” to find the source of the latest Wikileaks heard ’round the world.

Enough is enough . . .  If the Pentagon feels a need to do a “robust investigation” they should start by conducting a search for and providing an accounting of that $8.7 billion dollars of reconstruction monies for Iraq.

Now the counterintel guys will begin chasing the intel guys, like a dog and its tail.

The enemy already know what we are doing, the invokement of secrecy is designed to keep it from you and me.

“Is anybody in our government not a myopic sociopath?”

I am beginning to wonder.

Thanks for the song, offersince.

Also thanks to DemocracyNow, one of the last still tellin’ it.

Loving the obtuse quotes from “our” government:

“Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Tuesday he worries that the leaks won’t stop “until we see someone in an orange jump suit.”

I bet he means the leaker, not the war criminals who were exposed.

“It’s possible that someone could get killed in the next few days,” said former senior intelligence officer Robert Riegle. He recalled what happened when the U.S. arrested the Soviet double agent, Robert Hanssen: “When people found out what we knew, people died.”

Translation: ‘In a blind attempt at truth and justice, now friends of ours will die instead of thousands of strangers.’

Is anybody in our government not a myopic sociopath?

Here is what I wish would come out of this story
Maybe you ole folks like me will remember

Last night I had the strangest dream
I’d ever dreamed before
I dreamed the world had all agreed
To put and end to war

I dreamed I waw a mighty room
Filled with women and men
And the paper they were signing said
They’d never fight again

And when the paper was all signed
And a million copies made
They all joined hands and bowed their heads
And grateful pray’rs were prayed

And the people in the streets below
Were dancing ‘round and ‘round
While swords and guns and uniforms
Were scattered on the ground

Last night I had the strangest dream
I’d never dreamed before
I dreamed the world had all agreed
To put an end to war.

David Lee, investigative editor of the Guardian UK, was a guest on DemocracyNow this morning (as mentioned in an earlier comment, but not by name). Also, Emanuel Goldstein, hacker (who hosts WBAI’s longtime hacker show “Off the Hook”; I am a longtime listener of the show, and is on the website http://www.2600.com) was a guest this morning.  He was great in speaking about WikiLeaks and hackers. 
Note: I am a longtime listener of WBAI (Pacifica Network’s NYC station) - and support http://www.takebackwbai.org  “Sanda Aronson”

A very interesting guest on Democracy Now this
morning from The Guardian UK.  He contrasted and compared
the differnent approach that the three newspapers took
in publishing the wikileaks and what their emphasis
was.

  First,  The great NYT, said they needed to confer
with the White House first even though wikileaks, and
the two European papers had all already agreed to redact
anything that might put an individual in harms way.
But still ,  our good ole Times ,  prewarned the W.H.,
why have we come to the point where newspapers and
journalists must confer with the government before they
publish a story.
  Next, he contrasted the emphasis that all three papers
concentrated on with their story,  both of the European
newspapers concentrated on the civilian causualties,
the NYT more concerned about the embarassing situation
of our government sending all that aid money to Pakistan
The Times and the WAPO,  will spin these leaks, and get
them out of public sight, just like the oil spill.

Well, some of the details may be sensitive, as reported.

But the only people who have a failed grasp of the Big Picture are Americans who are kept in the dark by collusion between media and government.  Everybody else in the world knows about what’s going on there, generally.  It’s another superpower trying to nail Jello to the ceiling.

Ever since 9/11 Americans have been fed the notion that Afghanistan is the hunt for Osama bin Laden and we’re gonna smoke al-Qaeda out of their caves.  We completely forgot about Afghanistan until years later, after “the Surge” in Iraq. That’s when there seemed to be some light at the end of the tunnel in Iraq, so what about Afghanistan? 

I used to get into arguments with Obama supporters about how Obama would not substantially change the foreign policy trajectory of the US.  Since Gitmo is still open, we’re still in Iraq, and we’re escalating Afghanistan, since we’re still threatening Iran and North Korea, since we still vacillate between Russia being our friend and our brutal godless enemy, what’s changed?  Anybody?  Bueller?