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WikiLeaks Prepares To Release "Largest Cache Of Secret U.S. Documents In History"

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The Pentagon is not too happy this morning. As the AP reports, WikiLeaks is about to release what the Pentagon fears
is the largest cache of secret U.S. documents in history — hundreds of
thousands of intelligence reports compiled after the 2003 invasion of
Iraq. While WikiLeaks has not commented on the imminent announcement, it tweeted earlier that there is "major WikiLeaks press conference in Europe coming up." And as this disclosure would be the "most massive leak of secret documents in
U.S. history" defense officials are racing to contain the damage. As a reminder WikiLeaks' last release of Adghanistan war logs made founder Julian Assange some of a persona non grata in most of the developed world. Of course, the buzz about who may be behind Wikileaks still seems to circulate every now and then. Additionally, Wiki advised interested parties who wish to book the announcement in advance to email the following address, sunshine.booking@mail.be, which however appears to be a broken one. Of course, it merely adds to the "mystery." Regardless, we will follow this and present wiki's findings as they become available.

More from the AP:

A team of more than a hundred analysts from across the U.S. military, lead by the Defense Intelligence Agency, has been combing through the Iraq documents they think will be released.

Called the Information Review Task Force, its analysts have pored over the documents and used word searches to try to pull out names and other issues that would be particularly sensitive, officials have said.

The task force has informed the U.S. Central Command of some of the names of Iraqis and allies and of other information they believe might be released that could present a danger, officials have said, noting that — unlike the WikiLeaks previous disclosure of some 77,000 documents from Afghanistan — in this case they had advance notice that names may be exposed.

That previous leak, back in July, outraged the U.S. military, which accused WikiLeaks of irresponsibility.

But The Associated Press has obtained a Pentagon letter reporting that no U.S. intelligence sources or practices were compromised by the posting of secret Afghan war logs.

Although U.S. officials still think the leaks could cause significant damage to U.S. security interests, the assessment suggests that some of the administration's worst fears about the July disclosure have so far failed to materialize.

In the meantime, here is some video entertainment from Wikileak's last release.

 

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Fri, 10/22/2010 - 09:33 | 669446 SheepDog-One
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Wikileaks = CIA.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 09:44 | 669479 Ratscam
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+1

just look at the guy! wouldn't trust him for a second!

Preparing to rock Pakistan and more countries to come. Then again there are not too many left where the US does not have a military base.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 09:47 | 669488 SheepDog-One
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Yea! We need to catch Bin Laden boogeyman! Nevermind hes on the CIA payroll too, expand those wars american people!

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 10:05 | 669531 OnTheWaterfront
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Thats what the administration would want you to think.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 10:31 | 669590 SheepDog-One
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OH so its the ol 'double triple cross diversion', yea right!

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 15:03 | 670311 cougar_w
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-1 It's getting stale.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 09:37 | 669456 Steak
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In this business we must always be looking forward to try and figure out where things are going.  But at times we can gain mightily from looking back.  I've gone far afield with playlists, from House to Funk to even plumbing my sister's itunes.  Not today.  I present the efforts of returning to my bread and butter: driving, pulsing, booming, progressive and uplifting trance.

How many of us have them? (a playlist): http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=2D93C314EE324D8B

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 15:03 | 670313 Shylockracy
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Cheers for the list, Steak.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 09:43 | 669473 SheepDog-One
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People actually BELIEVE in this Wikileaks CIA chop shop? And here Ive been wondering how our nation can possibly be so destroyed...the answer is obvious the people are idiots.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 09:47 | 669487 Gimp
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The rulers understand the beauty of the "information age" is that overwhelming the populous with disinformation will keep them "dazed and confused".

Brilliant. I hear unemployment fell to 5%?

 

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 10:45 | 669628 Bob
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Shit, I heard that it's only 9.2% . . . what a joke.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 11:23 | 669739 Unlawful Justice
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Here is the break down-

The Government is a Bank Cartel.

We are not "land of the free" We are slaves.

Corruption- is just another word for Hegemonic power club and your not in it.

How hard is that?

 

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 09:49 | 669494 RocketmanBob
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A good excuse for the company to get back into wetworks...

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 09:51 | 669503 Silverhog
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I thought we had secret agents with poison darts for this kind of stuff. I'm sure there is nothing that the Russia or Chinese already don't know.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 09:52 | 669504 SheepDog-One
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Assange says we must concentrate on 'terrorists' (all CIA organized) and 'financial fraud' OH so theyre not totaly immune from investigation and prosecution after all? Buncha BULLSHIT! Yea american people concentrate on those Wall St crooks who have TOTAL IMMUNITY from the govt itself, THATS where your anger should be directed! And also at vaporous 'terrorists' with CIA credit cards. I call BS on the whole damn enchillada!

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 10:01 | 669520 Alcoholic Nativ...
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Dude, go back to the Alex Jones forums.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 10:15 | 669546 i-dog
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Alex Jones thinks Wikileaks is for real ... and that's a worry! (But, then again, so did I until I recently found out about Assange's attitude to 9-11 and Bilderberg).

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 10:39 | 669608 SheepDog-One
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Right, the Alcoholic Native says go to Alex ones forum...where Alex says Wikileaks is real? The insult doesnt fit there Alcoholic.
And BTW, Wikileaks is a CIA chop shop.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 11:19 | 669719 tmosley
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It seems to me that he believes what he sees and has evidence of.  There is no real evidence that 9/11 was an inside job beyond the fact that the CIA funded Bin Laden when he was fighting the Soviets.  Blowback!=inside job.

Perhaps if someone were to leak documents to him concerning 9/11, he might change his opinion.  But as it stands, there is no convincing evidence that points to anything other than incompetence on the part of the government in terms of 9/11.  There are too many eyes, and too many fingers in the pie for a conspiracy of that size to fail to have come out.

That is, unless you can provide evidence to the contrary.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 13:55 | 670109 The Rock
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Back in 2001, no one in the US had video cell phones (or even camera phones), there was no Google (it was still in its infancy), there was no Youtube, there was no Facebook, etc.  Yet, there was still some sloppiness in their stunts.  The evidence is definitely there.  Can you imagine if they tried to pull off that kind of stunt again today? There is no way they can "erase all the evidence"!!

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 14:28 | 670207 sgt_doom
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"There is no real evidence that 9/11 was an inside job ..."

I'm thinking mathematics was never your strong point?

After 1,001 coincidences within the timeframe of the morning of 9/11/01, the improbability of so many probabilities becomes an unalterable fact and condition.

Sorry, dood, but your ignorance is showing....

(And no, far too many of us have been providing evidence for far too long to waste any further time on your kind.)

Read a book....for a change!

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 14:30 | 670212 sgt_doom
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"There are too many eyes, and too many fingers in the pie for a conspiracy of that size to fail to have come out."

OK, this last time I'll bite, rodger dodger.

You draft dodgers, who have never been involved with any hazardous duty or combat missions, always make this phony claim.

Can YOU prove such a line of balderdash?

I count between 17 to 23 total involved.

This time....YOU prove otherwise. (And make it sound good and logical.)

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 20:21 | 670871 i-dog
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"There are too many eyes, and too many fingers in the pie for a conspiracy of that size to fail to have come out.

That is, unless you can provide evidence to the contrar"

I, too, laboured under this delusion until 2007 ... when a business partner then pushed me to look into the then available evidence rather than insulting his intelligence by just dismissing the conspiracy theory out-of-hand.

I was stunned by what I found then, yet there have been terabytes of additional video and audio evidence released recently under court orders against NIST that further remove any doubts that it was a controlled demolition with foreknowledge and involvement by the US government.

There have also been whistleblowers coming forward recently who implicate every one of the 9-11 commissioners in the cover up.

You also need to look into it if you are to fully understand the context of what is going on now.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 10:32 | 669593 SheepDog-One
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Dude go back to the village, theyre lonely without their idiot!

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 10:00 | 669518 Azannoth
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Time to donate to WikiLeaks again :) 

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 10:06 | 669530 Alcoholic Nativ...
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I would like to recommend this documentary to Everybody in here.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4Fjadh6S1g

 

The film explores the evolution of propaganda and public relations in the United States, with an emphasis on the “elitist theory of democracy” and the relationship between war, propaganda and class.

This film is designed both as an introduction to the concept of psychological warfare by governments against their citizens, and as an exploration of certain dominant themes in American propaganda. Significant time is also devoted to different conceptions of "democracy" as theorized by figures like Walter Lippmann, Edward Bernays and ultimately the founding fathers of the United States itself.

 

Just came out this year.  Obvious CIA disinfo but you get the picture.

 

 

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 10:39 | 669610 High Plains Drifter
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Bernays was the master.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 11:42 | 669786 CD
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Thanks for posting, looks interesting (though sadly unlikely to surprise many here).

 

In case you haven't seen/hear of it, 'Century of the Self' covers the basics. Despite a bias/strange focus on Freud, it's quite an eye-opener in its breadth and historical context.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvHcbolQ0K4&feature=related

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 10:12 | 669545 Amsterdammer
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Wikieaks does have a cache in the works related to US banks,

maybe even for the FED. Between them and

cryptome.org, they are a welcome headwind in

the 'Orwelliian' Amerika. It seems some of the comments ae discussing

B. Woodward. If any of this could get D. Cheney and W

iin front of a court ( similar process for 'war crimes'is

ongoing in the U.K against T. B(air) ; is it useful

to emind that the 'Irak wars' have left 1 million Iraki casulaties and 4 million

orphans, for the sake of Saddam's weapons....

http://cybersecurityreport.nextgov.com/2010/10/wikileaks_communications_...

 

 

 

 

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 10:15 | 669555 Windemup
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Could this be a CIA ploy to achieve the shut down of the internet?

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 10:21 | 669560 i-dog
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Highly likely. But Napolitano could [and will] shut it down at any time on any one of a hundred trumped up "national security" grounds. They're just not quite ready yet (which could also explain the continuing delays of this next wikileaks release ... which has been coming "any day now" for months).

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 10:23 | 669568 the not so migh...
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When they feel they have lost control they will shut it down.   But it won't matter. 

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 10:22 | 669564 Eureka Springs
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If the CIA is helping release the "largest cache of US secret documents in history" I will have to seriously reconsider my firm belief that the likes of our 16 US intel departments should be shut down faster than the fed reserve itself.

 

Secrecy has probably already killed our republic.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 10:28 | 669578 High Plains Drifter
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhZk8ronces

 

President Kennedy, talking about secrecy. Not long after this speech,

he was dead

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 10:34 | 669596 SheepDog-One
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Riiiiight and theres nothing they could do to stop the release of the 'largest document cache in US history'! Sure!

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 10:41 | 669620 High Plains Drifter
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At first  I thought it was real too. But then I started looking at some of the stuff they had already released. I was expecting bombshells. What I read was not that earth shattering to say the least. Then I became suspicious. I knew it was being controlled.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 14:32 | 670223 sgt_doom
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OK, I turned off your control switch.

You can go on being as you were....

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 10:23 | 669567 Tense INDIAN
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I’m constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud.” -Assange

 

can u believe what this idiot said.....there is no doubt in many peoples mind that9/11 was an inside job...and that theres no Al-qaeda ....

 

and what leaks ....torture in afganistan ,...afgan iraqi women are rapped...innocent are shot.....that happens in every war...give us something new.....

 

and is AP advertising the wikileaks ...i bet so....

 

Plus i think this is a war on NET freedom.......they are going to brand Internet as a NATIONAL SECURITY threat......

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 10:37 | 669601 SheepDog-One
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Architects and Engineers for 9-11 Truth, thousands of signed members are all 'loonies' I guess when they conclude the official Gooberment story on 9-11 is obviously false. Just 'tin foilers' all those thousands of architects, engineers, and demolition experts are.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 13:24 | 670034 DaveyJones
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the quote is another clue that it's a nome de plume

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 10:25 | 669571 Miles Kendig
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Wacky-leaks is nothing more than a self appointed censor.   When will see these kinds of document dumps regarding other nations?

Unless the whole deal is false flag.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 13:31 | 670055 ozziindaus
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I agree. Wikileaks seems to be another tool globalists are using to slowly shift the balance of power to another region of the world, namely, Asia. Sometimes I think ZH is another tool with all the commi glorification. Put me off the site for a while.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 15:02 | 670298 Miles Kendig
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Nothing lasts forever...  Meanwhile, ride strong.  It's your bike and no one else's.  Just stay away from the crystal dream crap at much as ya can

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKqW5o4idt8

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 10:26 | 669575 Alterity
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http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/66552/william-j-lynn-iii/defendin...

In 2008, the U.S. Department of Defense suffered a significant compromise of its classified military computer networks. It began when an infected flash drive was inserted into a U.S. military laptop at a base in the Middle East. The flash drive's malicious computer code, placed there by a foreign intelligence agency, uploaded itself onto a network run by the U.S. Central Command. That code spread undetected on both classified and unclassified systems, establishing what amounted to a digital beachhead, from which data could be transferred to servers under foreign control. It was a network administrator's worst fear: a rogue program operating silently, poised to deliver operational plans into the hands of an unknown adversary. This previously classified incident was the most significant breach of U.S. military computers ever, and it served as an important wake-up call. The Pentagon's operation to counter the attack, known as Operation Buckshot Yankee, marked a turning point in U.S. cyberdefense strategy.

**I wonder how much of this WikiLeak is directly due to the event above??**

If so Assange should have his arse in a 8*5 cell!

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 14:36 | 670242 sgt_doom
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Wow, using an article from the Council on Foreign Relations' publication.

Stunning!  And absolutely proof positive for the rest of us Matrix People!

Negative, sonny.  It was the Pentagon which screwed up when they allowed access to certain honey trap TOR servers to one of their neocon PAC buddies, which allowed in Ghostnet, which allowed ("allowed" as in taking advantage of, unknown to the Ghostnet people) the 'leaks crew surveil them.

Sorry to slap down your Council on Foreign Relations propaganda trash.....I'm sure Kissinger will be miffed!

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 15:49 | 670397 Alterity
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Of course, I should have known that you already know all the answers to everything so I'm wasting my time by thinking there may be a connection.  'Neocon PAC buddies'??  You sound like one those parasites that wait for a link to go up on Drudge so that you can be the first to spew sarcasm and left-wing bilge.  Sorry to slap down your ego...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 10:42 | 669623 Incubus
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Around us all the world'll crumble, but we won't notice.  Business as usual.

 

I'm tired of waiting for the inevitable end that never arrives. 

 

2 + 2 = 5

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 10:58 | 669664 web bot
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You won't have to wait much longer. Check out Asymmetrical Language Trending Analysis... it's saying that a global currency collapse should happen around Nov 8th - 11th. I'm also not associated with them.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 12:10 | 669857 Babycatcher
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I'm aware of ALTA.  Got my report this morning.  Interesting to watch the next few weeks unfold.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 13:22 | 670031 web bot
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If this comes to be... it will be brutal.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 12:17 | 669877 downrodeo
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We don't have long to wait now.. time tells all, yo.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 10:55 | 669652 web bot
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This is #uckin bizzare.

Sure - we all rage against the machine now and then... we do not like government in our lives... but this is out of wack.

The US and it's allies are at war and some wing nut liberal #uck, who believes in saving trees and whales is going to release sensitive classified information which is going to be used against us. We are at war... just in case anyone forgot.

This is the main problem with America and much of the western world. We have deluded ourselves to believe that to unfetter everything... is a sign of progress.

We have had unfettered capital markets... what has that given us?

We have unfettered release of classified information... what will that give us, in addition to more body bags?

I'd pick up a pea shooter in a moment to defend democracy and our capitalist way of living... but I have to ask - is our belief in "unfettered progress" leading us to our own undoing? Can we get back to the middle?

We do need "some" form of regulation for society to work... but there must be some sacrosanct areas that are off limits. Even the US Constitution has limits built into it.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 11:13 | 669702 Eureka Springs
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Have a coke with all that straw, man.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 11:13 | 669704 High Plains Drifter
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd8wwMFmCeE&NR=1

 

President Eisenhower warning about the military industrial complex. 

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 11:23 | 669734 Bob
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We do need "some" form of regulation for society to work... but there must be some sacrosanct areas that are off limits. Even the US Constitution has limits built into it.

We officially began a clearly endless War on Terror 9 years ago and have had a full-blown physical war on two fronts for the past 6.  The Constitution appears to no longer be in force. 

You want to make a conveniently contrived state of war the justification for trusting the same folks who brought us all this with deciding what we need to know?

Don't worry, though.  Those psychopaths will not tolerate release of anything significant. 

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 13:34 | 670044 web bot
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Come down from the #uckin mountains, take that bag off of your head and bang your head on something good and #uckin hard.

It's people like you that are also part of the problem... on the other side of the teeter totter. You think releasing this information makes any sense? Go back to the rest of the inbreds that you come from back in the hills and string your banjo.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 15:11 | 670322 DaveyJones
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too many facts in that argument. Might want to inject some polarized meaningless name calling.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 14:27 | 670201 Cathartes Aura
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The US and it's allies are at war and some wing nut liberal #uck, who believes in saving trees and whales is going to release sensitive classified information which is going to be used against us. We are at war... just in case anyone forgot.

irrespective of whatever part in the drama assange/wikileaks is playing, your argument lacks depth. . .

"trees and whales" are intrinsic to an ecosystem that we all inhabit, as is the air we breathe and the water we drink, both of which are increasingly polluted by "the US and it's allies" - the toxins used against humans are increasing exponentially, and to ignore that is foolish.

"We are at war" - I am not at war, and if you want to identify with the corporate, resource-thieving warmongers, fine - but enough with the righteous defense of a nationstate that is designed to use and discard you - amrka has been "at war" all your life, what's new?

these are very interesting, tense times, and pretty much anything that happens won't surprise me - a question for anyone - given that the internet is necessary to "get information" to others worldwide, and remembering how hysteria is a tool used against us, if something "dramatic" were to take place, you reckon "they" will leave the net up so as to facilitate the message-relay?  because if aliens landed on the pentagon, and no one was there to "see"(report/film/broadcast) it, did it happen?

we are all going to have to decide what it is we "know" and what we are prepared to "believe". . . sooner rather than later.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 14:39 | 670249 sgt_doom
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""unfettered progress"

Did they let you back on the "magic machine" again at the Home for the Mentally Out-to-lunch again?

I suspect they should really take away your PC privileges and Web access, crazy boy.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 11:51 | 669807 downwiththebanks
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If they had anything important to add to the discussion, the "Nuke Pakistan" document dump would never have been published in the resident propaganda organizations throughout the White world (NYT, Guardian, Der Spiegel).

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 12:50 | 669956 israhole
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Israel runs the US.  Here's an example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRreoB63Dq0

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 13:03 | 669980 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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Wiki release:

Donald Rumsfeld wears women's underwear.

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 15:32 | 670366 Common_Cents22
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So one rogue guy had access to all the documents and released them?   I think there is some collaboration with the current admin, Holder's office?  who?    This is another hey, look over there "blame Bush" scenario. 

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