WikiLeaks.org aims to expose lies, topple governments

NY Post ^ | November 29, 2009 | JULIAN ASSANGE

[Scanian]

This week, the website WikiLeaks.org released half-a-million pager messages sent on 9/11. It wasn’t the first time the site has generated comment or controversy. The two-year-old WikiLeaks has rapidly made a name for itself by posting, often anonymously, secret documents and classified reports. It also posted the e-mails (which were either hacked or leaked) of research scientists from the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia University, who in private messages undermined global warming data. Here, editor JULIAN ASSANGE explains the site’s philosophy ...

[GOPJ]

WikiLeaks.org ? Interesting...

[GOPJ]

In Kenya, we released a suppressed private intelligence report that exposed over $3 billion of looting by the richest man in Kenya, former President Daniel Arap Moi, and other senior members of the serving Kenyan political class, who had laundered state funds across the world, into London and Swiss banks, Australian ranches — and property in New York. The report made front pages around the world, lead to a diplomatic incident with the UK, and swung the vote by 10% going into the December 28, 2007 election. None of the named politicians were re-elected and the constitution was extensively modified to create a new form of government with reduced power for the President and an executive Prime Minister.

We believe that transparency in government activities leads to reduced corruption, better government and stronger democracies.

The wave of a free future...

[Bender2]

Went to http://wikileaks.org/

Nothing jumped out but then again... I was hoping to find Obama’s true birth certificate, Judge Crater's hideaway address or the phone number of that stacked redheaded checker at Walmart!

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

Great site.

Hope they take down several more governments, with their tremendous lack of any transparency.

They can start with the U.S. Government !!! Har har.

[jonascord]

I'm actually thinking that this is a NOT a bad thing.

I've always thought that there were too many 'secrets', and too great a willingness of our "betters" to keep things from the general public "for their own good."

Like Dear Leader's records, or the raw data of "climate change", (if any), or the Venona Papers, the list is substantial...

[Arkinsaw]

The reporters will no longer do it, so somebody has to.

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

I’m actually thinking that this is a NOT a bad thing.
I’ve always thought that there were too many ‘secrets’, and too great a willingness of our “betters” to keep things from the general public “for their own good.”

Like Dear Leader’s records, or the raw data of “climate change”, (if any), or the Venona Papers, the list is substantial...

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Releasing the VENONA papers was a great move;

a real insight into what the Soviets secretly were doing inside America,

that they had always loudly and falsely denied.

Gee, just like now, huh?

[GOPJ]

The reporters will no longer do it, so somebody has to.

Ping

[Scanian]

I think so.

We’ll have to see if they are true to their stated objectives or whether they are just an interest group with an axe to grind.

[Nervous Tick]

>> The reporters will no longer do it, so somebody has to.

Isn’t that the truth.

In fact, one day I hope to see a leak of smoking gun email exchanges BETWEEN reporters colluding to suppress news that doesn’t fit their agenda.

I’m positive these emails, phone calls, etc. happen because they’re doing it every day.

[GOPJ]

We’ll have to see if they are true to their stated objectives or whether they are just an interest group with an axe to grind.

Good point - bias makes for boring... and "unread"...

[Condor51]

Now if someone would just leak the Top Secret documents about Roswell NM, Space Aliens, Area 51, and 'Majestic 12', it'll be all worth it.

(We'll finally get the truth about Alan Colmes and where he *really* comes from)

[GOPJ]

Maybe soon...

[blackie]

Interesting...

[Jack Black]

Now if someone would just leak the Top Secret documents about Roswell NM, Space Aliens, Area 51, and 'Majestic 12', it'll be all worth it.

Isn't all the Majestic 12 material alread available. The book "Above Top Secret" seemed to have pages and pages of it.

[Condor51]

*** Isn't all the Majestic 12 material alread available. The book "Above Top Secret" seemed to have pages and pages of it. ***

I've never heard of that book, or I did and forgot. (happens a lot lately)

But I'm not positive 'everything' pertaining to Majestic 12 has been released. As I recall the last official thing from the gubmint was a letter saying its all baloney, that Majestic 12 never existed period and the 'official documents' on the Internet were forgeries.

And I'll try to get that book from my local Library. (writing it down so I don't forget)

[kcvl]

Historically it has been the press that has created the most important part of the public record. But I believe in a new balancing estate, a new age of journalistic integrity, and a new form of civic courage — based, like our best science, not on backroom whispers and selective quotations, but on documented evidence, from Tehran to Washington, about how powerful organizations actually behave. Only then can we chart a course to reform.

When journalists deny their readers the primary source material on which their most important stories are based, they not only deny our children an important part of their rightful political heritage, they deny themselves integrity, and the long-term good will of a public which cannot hold them to account. The media must once again become the champion of the public record, and through it the champion of all.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/wikileaks_org_aims_to_expose_lies_flsLqNMO3B0LEtxL5bNaKL#ixzz0YHJbVqSx

AMEN!!!

[GOPJ]

When journalists deny their readers the primary source material on which their most important stories are based, they not only deny our children an important part of their rightful political heritage, they deny themselves integrity, and the long-term good will of a public...

It's sad - there was a time when a journalist was taken at face value - and didn't have to "prove" his work. Different times. Broken trust.