Posted on 12/06/2010 10:56:08 AM PST by ConorMacNessa
(CNN) -- WikiLeaks has published a secret U.S. diplomatic cable listing locations abroad that the U.S. considers vital to its national security, prompting criticism that the website is inviting terrorist attacks on American interests.
The list is part of a lengthy cable the State Department sent in February 2009 to its posts around the world. The cable asked American diplomats to identify key resources, facilities and installations outside the United States "whose loss could critically impact the public health, economic security, and/or national and homeland security of the United States."
The diplomats identified dozens of places on every continent, including mines, manufacturing complexes, ports and research establishments. CNN is not publishing specific details from the list, which refers to pipelines and undersea telecommunications cables as well as the location of minerals or chemicals critical to U.S. industry.
The list also mentions dams close to the U.S. border and a telecommunications hub whose destruction might seriously disrupt global communications. Diplomats also identified sites of strategic importance for supplying U.S. forces and interests abroad, such as in the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf and the Panama Canal.
The cable is classified secret and not for review by non-U.S. personnel.
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I don’t for a minute believe some low-ranking person is responsible for this.
He’s an enemy combatant, not a traitor (he’s not a US citizen so he can’t be a ‘traitor’ to the USA, although maybe to Australia).
He is, however, a clear and present danger to countless Americans and our interests worldwide.
either is Obama , I think they are in cahoots
Can’t be treason. He’s not American. However, it could be considered a kind of terrorism.
it was an american soldier who provided the info to wikileaks....if that aint treason nothing is. yet the media and kenyan/american administration is awfully silent about the perp .
AND he’s an enemy of our Nation. He’s attacking our Nation’s security. Time we declare war back on him, and eliminate the problem.
LOL!
The American soldier who provided the info is another story altogether....that is treason as you say. Assange is a terrorist and enemy combatant. Like you, I find the administration’s silence on this rather strange.
We may know a bit or two about obvious sites, especially inside the country. But very few would know that a certain low-key mine in Zambia provides a certain ore of Unobtainium that the USA has no second source for. In fact, there may be several mines of that kind, which makes the conclusion harder to reach. Just look at rare earths as an example; this became publicly known only when China used it as an economic weapon against Japan. Diplomats and analysts likely knew it all along.
In other words, diplomats and other specialists posted in various countries most likely know more about those countries (and especially about links of those countries to the US interests) than an average US resident, even if the said resident is reasonably educated. There is either too much information for one person to study, or too little information. Many African nations aren't well represented on the Internet and aren't shining democracies. If you want to know the real situation at some facility there you need to talk to a boss there, and he won't talk to you unless you are a US diplomat or a known US businessman or the country's dictator gives him a call ahead of your visit.
Julian Assange is a cyber terrorist and should be treated like any other terrorist. It’s time America makes an example of him.
Right. Manufactured. Wikileaks was used by some disgruntled leftist, probably a member of the BO administration.
“Wikileaks is serving that function for our enemies.”
Right. But was it really a private who made this possible? I don’t think the private was the root of this leak.
“Does anyone on this thread know where these leaks are REALLY coming from? I cannot believe that all of this was in the caring hand of a mere private.”
The fact that this informatin was leaked tells me enough to speculate. First off, wikileaks was selling information:
WikiLeaks sold classified intel, claims website’s co-founder
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=236345
Selling secrets ‘lucrative,’ but ‘usually cloaked in some kind of public benefit’
Therefore, it might have trained and paid operatives simply to keep the revenue stream. But things heated up at some point; someone fed them information, someone dissatisfied with BO/Pelosi/Reid.
Whoever leaked didn’t mind endangering informants in Afghanistan. Unlikely that was a conservative or zionist. Didn’t mind hurting Hillary. Unlikely to be a democrat moderate or Clintonista. Vindicated Israel. Unlikely to be bin Laden or Islamo-facist. What remains? A leftist nitwit, most likely a disgruntled former Obama supporter who is now disillusioned.
Today’s Guardian:
“If extradited to Sweden under the EAW – a process that could be concluded quickly under the fast-track procedure – Assange will be vulnerable to other extradition requests from countries including the US.
The US has an extradition treaty with Sweden since the 1960s, when the nations agreed to “make more effective the co-operation of the two countries in the repression of crime”.
Extradition under the treaty is likely to face a number of obstacles, not least the fact that the likely charges facing Assange in the US – under the Espionage Act or other legislation protecting national security – are not included in the exhaustive list of offences set out in the law.”
And all of this secret info supposedly was obtained by a private in the U.S. military. Yeah, right. Give me a break.
As if this info wasn’t already known to Al Queda.
Idiots.
So, out of curiosity, does this mean the FReeper opinion on international courts and international arrest warrants has changed in light of recent events?
I seem to recall George W Bush (and most conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic to be honest) being extremely hostile to even one atom of American national sovereignty being conceded to a foreign power, even in the context of international arrest warrants and the like. Which probably explains why the extradition treaty with the UK is so one-sided...
No change. Liberty and freedom are more important than the expansion of the soical welfare state, world governance, socialist uptopianism, or placating the egos of dictators.
Al-Qaida Currently Seeking the Wikileaks “Target List” Documents(s)
http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/007092.html
Jihadis and Wikileaks, More Discussions
http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/007091.html
Yes Virginia, Al-Qaida Does Indeed Love Wikileaks
http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/007087.html
“An FDR, Harry Truman, Eisenhower, etc, would have just taken him out.”
Bear in mind that all three of them tolerated Soviet spies in the State Department and elsewhere for fear of offending the leftist intelligentsia.
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