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WikiLeaks Promises Biggest-Ever Leak

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Posted on Nov 22, 2010

The whistle-blower enabler tweeted the following Sunday night, along with a link to donate: “Next release is 7x the size of the Iraq War Logs. intense pressure over it for months. Keep us strong.” If true, that’s seven times 391,832 reports—the largest ever release of classified material.

Another tweet shortly after said, “The coming months will see a new world, where global history is redefined.”

AP makes a guess at what the mysterious leak might consist of:

Although it isn’t clear what WikiLeaks is planning to release next, it allegedly has a huge cache of classified U.S. State Department cables whose publication could give a behind-the-scenes look at American diplomacy around the world.

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By James L., November 23, 2010 at 9:06 am Link to this comment
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This is cause to celebrate if it tears at the layers of anti-democratic deep state
structures.  Combine this feat with London’s threat to arrest Bush as a war criminal, and
South America’s organizing against neoliberal free trade policies and you get…

A happy day on planet Earth.  Maybe we shouldn’t take that cyanide after all.

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By ronjeremy, November 23, 2010 at 2:47 am Link to this comment
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spreading the information is great.  the truth should be known.  however, is it just me, or does it seem like the majority of people still do not really, i mean really, care enough to do something about the whole government/military industrial complex’s wrongdoings (which become ours by fault)?  bush admits to ordering torture on someone and nothing happens.  way too many democrats and republicans were still elected at this last go.  keep spreading the truth, though.  small steps to climb that montain

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By Leefeller, November 22, 2010 at 11:08 pm Link to this comment

Announcing in advance when one is going to take a mother of all leaks does sound serious.

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By gerard, November 22, 2010 at 8:43 pm Link to this comment

Reminder:  This is no “tiny act of rebellion”.but a very brave effort to inform the world in spite of “new frontiers of mass surveillanc.” It is nothing short of a “body pat-down” of the entire military/industrial complex, long overdue. Remember, it is the people’s country that is being drained of blood and resources and moral stature.  It is, after all is said and done, the people’s mic,  the people’s wars of aggression—and the people’s information.

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By gerard, November 22, 2010 at 8:30 pm Link to this comment

Sooner or later we are going to have to defend these guys—and probably at some expense of one kind or another.  Are we ready?

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By PatrickHenry, November 22, 2010 at 7:45 pm Link to this comment

Julian Assange is in the running for Time magazine man of the year.

He’s got my vote.

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