Posted on 10/26/2010 9:39:34 AM PDT by shortstop
Assante is just a figurehead. In fact, many dislike him for it, and think he is just promoting himself while many anonymous people do all the work.
Bob (and everyone else) needs to calm down and check their facts before putting a fatwa on someone that would only become a martyr.
Why does no one consider the possibility Wikileaks is yet another CIA front, or being fed by the CIA or etc etc. Why do people not accept the fact that we rank and file know about 10 % of reality, and if you are seeing it on TV and in print, there is usually a REASON you are seeing it on TV which may or may not have anything at all to do with what you think you are seeing.
Note: Every picture I see of him he is looking over his shoulder.
I seriously doubt it is to see his friends but rather his enemies.
The guy that actually leaked the information is in jail. He's the only one that committed a crime, because he agreed to not disseminate information that was provided to him.
If you don't have a security clearance, you can't commit a crime for simply distributing classified information. You must be instead prosecuted under the Espionage Act, and that's a much higher standard to meet.
Finally, the person "representing" Wikileaks is not a US citizen, and is unlikely to ever set foot in this country. He is nothing but a figurehead anyway -- all the work is being done by other anonymous people behind the scenes.
Bumping the facts.
I hear the Chilean mine has recent vacancies.
Because Barky likes it that way, that’s why.
I would love to be able to believe that our government was actually that efficient and effective. Unfortunately I think I know better. :-)
Dennis Miller also asked this rhetorical question on his show yesterday.
By his willful and direct actions he has caused the deaths of a number of people. Not much different than what Charlie Manson did. He should meet an untimely end.
Granted I understand this sentiment and almost agree with it...except for one key thing.
We are being systematically lied to by our government about all of this stuff. We are committing ourselves, brothers, fathers, mothers, etc to the cause and we are being fed a bunch of crap both by the Bush admin and now the Obama admin.
If we were told the truth and allowed to have an honest discussion about these huge issues WIKILEAKS wouldn’t even exist!!!
This is the case where if we shoot the messenger we clearly allow the violations of the public trust being committed by those in charge.
This is exactly what the founding fathers warned us about...
because we don’t have the sorts of presidents we once had and there is no Cold War
Paging Colby and Helms.
The US hasn’t done a treason tril in a while but the military clerk who leaked these documents should be tried and then executed.
As for the blogger - I’m fine with him simply vanishing off the street one fine day.
I would not be shocked if it were someone at the "highest levels".
Calculus.
For every crumb of disinformation there must be information, verifiable and actionable. Sometimes much more than the false leads, enough to bury the few seminal things which will pop up somewhere else and confirm networks, trace information flow, or foil efforts which might have otherwise been successful.
Maybe those are there, maybe not. Some may be truth, some fiction. I do not know, nor am I in any position to.
Intelligence is an onion, though, often layer wrapped upon layer, with deception sandwiched in between.
Fonts of ‘classified’ information can be used as fonts of disinformation, too. With a ‘good enough’ track record, the disinformation will enter the sysetem well accepted.
Besides, I thought we declared a moratorium on ‘wet work’.
Maybe a Letter of Marque or Reprisal?
When I think of all the decades I withheld the very nature of my classified USAF mission (even from my own wife and family) — and then read about this tratorious WIKILEAKS puke — my trigger finger starts to squeeeeeze...
Got it now. Thanks for the info.
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