A newly leaked CIA report prepared earlier this month(.pdf) analyzes how the U.S. Government can best manipulate public opinion in Germany and France -- in order to ensure that those countries continue to fight in Afghanistan.
The War on WikiLeaks and Why It Matters – Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com
What the heck is WikiLeaks?
Per Greenwald, WikiLeaks is “the site run by the non-profit group Sunshine Press, that is devoted to exposing suppressed government and corporate corruption by publicizing many of their most closely guarded secrets..”
WikiLeaks refers to itself as the “intelligence agency of the people.”
So what “ships” floating around out there are at risk because of WikiLeaks’ loose lips?
Well, check it out:
The Standard Operating Manual for Guantanamo,
documents showing how corrupt offshore loans precipitated the economic collapse in Iceland,
the notorious emails between climate scientists,
documents showing toxic dumping off the coast of Africa,
and they have recently come into possession of classified videos relating to civilian causalities under the command of Gen. David Petraeus, as well as documentation relating to civilian-slaughtering airstrikes in Afghanistan which the U.S. military had agreed to release, only to change their mind.
Collateral Murder is the video if you have the integrity and willingness to watch it.
“All of this has made WikiLeaks an increasingly hated target of numerous government and economic elites around the world, including the U.S. Government. As The New York Times put it last week: ‘To the list of the enemies threatening the security of the United States, the Pentagon has added WikiLeaks.org, a tiny online source of information and documents that governments and corporations around the world would prefer to keep secret.’ "
I’m appreciative of these particular loose lips and think we are better informed for what they have made known.
The question should not be “Should WikiLeaks be Prosecuted or Targeted?”
No, the more justified questions going all the way up to our President should be,
What the hell on Earth are you doing in our name?
Were you ever going to tell us?
How about a presidential address justifying why this country needs to be the global bully pulling these sort of acts – not for my individual freedom – but in the name of false patriotism and the pure unfettered citizen jingoistic mind set that lets one nation pillage – without accountability – the rest of the world?
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