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Aside from the diplomatic damage the WikiLeaks dump of more than 250,000 confidential U.S. State Department cables has created, security experts say they also provide a treasure trove of information that could be exploited by terrorists and organized crime syndicates.
The documents, which claim to have been redacted for safety, reveal much more than the often-embarrassing opinions of American diplomats of world leaders.
From a security point of view, they also reveal who American officials met, where, and in many cases, for how long. This is the type of information that hit teams spend months, or even years, trying to gather by conducting risky and expensive surveillance. Now the information is online in clearly marked, easily sorted files.
Not just a dinner party guest list
For example, a cable from Abu Dhabi describes a dinner hosted by Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
He was having the dinner party for the former American CENTCOM Cmdr. John Abizaid. The cables listed a half-dozen senior UAE military officials who attended the dinner.
This is not just a guest list. WikiLeaks exposed the inner circle of the UAE’s military and intelligence command. The guest list identified the power players, information that could be useful to someone who wants to harm the UAE, or change the nation’s policy.
While the names and titles of the security officials are known (they can be looked up on Google), revealing who gathers for a top-level meeting shows who is really important. There are many security officials in the UAE. The dinner list identifies which ones are critical.
It would be like releasing the names of the people who gather in the White House situation room at the time of a crisis.
‘Actionable intelligence’
Another cable described how Jordan’s king, the UAE’s army chief and the Duke of York Prince Andrew often go hunting together.
“Jordanian King Abdullah II is a close friend of UAE Armed Forces Chief of Staff Muhammad bin Zayid Al-Nahyan. The two frequently hunt – in Morocco and Tanzania – joined, more often than not, by England's Prince Andrew.”
No doubt the security advisers of all three leaders are now suggesting that those trips stop, or be moved to new locations. If they’re not, they should. There can’t be that many hunting areas in Morocco and Tanzania suitable for a king and prince. It wouldn’t be difficult to figure out where they would go. The cables said the group travels frequently.
“Understanding who is included in a leadership meeting and where the leaders frequently travel is the type of ‘actionable intelligence’ we often seek on our enemies,” said former top White House counter-terrorism adviser and NBC News security analyst Roger Cressey. “What WikiLeaks has done is give any adversary of a U.S. ally that kind of actionable intelligence. It is beyond irresponsible.”
In a statement, Sen. Joe Lieberman also said the WikiLeaks release puts lives at risk.
“It is an outrageous, reckless, and despicable action that will undermine the ability of our government and our partners to keep our people safe and to work together to defend our vital interests,” said Lieberman. “Let there be no doubt: the individuals responsible are going to have blood on their hands.”
A statement from the British Foreign Office said the cables “can damage national security, are not in the national interest and, as the U.S. has said, may put lives at risk.”
Quirks reveal patterns
That includes the safety of some officials who have had troubled relations with the United States. The quixotic Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi certainly has enemies who want to kill him (the United States bombed his house in 1986), was exposed in details that would make his security entourage sweat bullets.
The leaked cables said Gadhafi won’t fly longer than eight hours, won’t fly over water and won’t stay above the first floor of hotels. I’m surprised they didn’t list what side of the bed he sleeps on.
The cables also explain how Gadhafi relies less on his female bodyguards. Back when white suits with epaulets and military hats were in style (at least in style with Gadhafi), the Libyan leader would always be accompanied by a troop of female guards. He said potential attackers would be confused and disoriented by their beauty and sex appeal. Now, the cables said Gadhafi “cannot travel without” a “voluptuous blonde” Ukrainian nurse, whom they name.
During WWII and the Cold War, this kind of intelligence – the oddities, quirks, and most importantly, the patterns of world leaders – was gathered by intelligence agencies. It still is. You don’t need to know how to get to a world leader. You need to know who can. It goes on and on.
The cables describe who attended meetings with Gen. Petraeus in Beirut, a city where the government has little control over militants and kidnappers.
They identify the key counter-terrorism officials in Arab countries, and their traveling companions.
In a statement regarding WikiLeaks, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said, “By releasing stolen and classified documents, WikiLeaks has put at risk not only the cause of human rights but also the lives and work of these individuals. We condemn in the strongest terms the unauthorized disclosure of classified documents and sensitive national security information.”
The WikiLeaks release of diplomatic cables will undoubtedly cause many officials, kings, ministers, presidents and princes to review, if not change, their personal security procedures. While the Wikileaks cables contain fascinating insights into political meetings and backdoor dealings, they can also be mined for details used to harm the people named in them.
More reporting from Richard Engel on other WikiLeaks: WikiLeaks' Iraq files: 400,000 insights into war
The who, what and why of WikiLeaks
Revealed: U.S. diplomats slam world leaders
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Absolutely. And they should be treated as enemy combatants in this 21st century realm of information warfare. Nothing should be off the table.
Freedom of the press made this country what it is today. If you cede to the government the right to decide what information is off limits, you're on the road to a dictatorship.
That's awfully dramatic... This has nothing to do with one person controlling a country on a whim. This has everything to do with sensitive negotiations.
So sensitive diplomacy should just be out in the open for all the idiots to see!? I mean Iran, terrorists and NK have every right to know what's going on behind closed doors. Think dude.
If that were the case no one would communicate and nothing would get done. Sounds good on paper... but seriously, think.
Did you ever do the "frog in boiling water" experiment? Just turn up the old "scare-o-meter" slowly and they'll stay in the pot 'til they're boiled. That's what we're doing with our freedoms today - free speech, freedom of the press - they're boiling away every time somebody justifies taking them in the name of "security".
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin
This goes beyond freedom of the press.You should not try to justify anything that endangers American lives.I hereby declare Julian bonehead of the decade.
Point to one thing that was leaked that will "endanger American lives" any more than the Watergate papers did. Making our government look bad is not the same thing as endangering people.
Cheney's leak of Valerie Plame's identity was a clearcut case of "endangering" someone, but where was the outrage over his deliberately trying to get her killed? Can those calling Assange a terrorist defend Cheney's actions?
This has nothing to do with freedom of speech. This is stolen information, not different than joyriding in a stolen car except many lives are in danger with this criminal act. With all freedoms comes responsibility, this Wikithief needs his freedom ended he knowingly used stolen property, and is sn accomplise. Just because Wikileaks proclaims freedom of speech, does make it a fact. Fact still is this was stolen classified material and he knew it. Jail him!
Ahh, but it won't matter if the leaked info was stolen from China or Russia, in that case freedom of speech would apply. Can't have it both ways.
Wikileaks isn't in America and Assange isn't an American citizen. He's outside our jurisdiction.
The real question before judging would be: Who is really behind wikileaks and what are they aiming at? When we know this we will know really if this is a tool for Criminals, Terrorists or Freedom of Press and Speech
@Fake American second;You are joking right.O.k How bout two,The discussions over the DPRK,and the outing of happenings in Yemen that will help build AQAPs ranks,but hey riling up our two biggest enemies just in the name of free speech surely will not endanger anyone,letting them in on our closed door discussions will not help their cause at all,as most will be out of true context.Get real.Pun intended
I guess the military leaders who want to use the espionage act of 1917 to prosecute those responsible do not feel national security was threatened either.lol Get real brother,quit kidding yourself watergate?lmao.they waited until most involved were dead to let that info out.
The Espionage Act was passed by Congress in 1917 after the United States entered the First World War. It prescribed a $10,000 fine and 20 years' imprisonment for interfering with the recruiting of troops or the disclosure of information dealing with national defense. Additional penalties were included for the refusal to perform military duty. Over the next few months around 900 went to prison under the Espionage Act.
See you in court Julian.lol
Certainly frredom of speech would be an issue here in the US but remember that, as pointed out, this is a non-American and not within the US. As the Supreme Court has noted, the Constitution stops at the border. International law and treaties would determine whether he could be arrested and brought here to mount a "Freedom of Speech" defense. Remember also that the Supreme Court has placed limitations on the extent of Frredom of Speech famously finding that you are not free to falsely cry "fire" in a crowded movies theatre thereby irresponsibly causing injury to the patrons. It would seem to me that the same concept would apply here.
If the US is bombing civilians in Yemen and lying about it, you don't think the world has a right to know that?
Sadly my real American friend, you apparently find it inconvenient to address any specific issues but find it easier to hysterically pontificate.
I'd invite all of you to read Glenn Greenwald's excellent article on the subject.
I hate to bust realamericanfirsts bubble but secrecy laws have never been voided through freedom of the press. Moreover, being foreign and out of the USA does not release you from liability under US espionage statutes.
I've seen about 4 articles now questioning whether Wikileaks is good/bad, qualifies as a terrorist group, should they be doing this, etc.
Where are the articles dissecting the INFO that was IN the leaks?!?
Just curious why there is so much messenger attacking going on while the media ignores the message? Hmm...
"Freedom of the press made this country what it is today. If you cede to the government the right to decide what information is off limits, you're on the road to a dictatorship"
Sorry freedom of the press does not include publishing stolen classified documents. If you wrote a book and they put it online for free, do you think freedom of the press allows this? Its the same exact thing except the press is helping the terrorists, and should be punished for printing it. NY Times execs should go to jail, as any "real American" would have done to them if they did the same thing. THe documents are stolen goods period.
A nation that holds itself above all others needs the type of transparency that this leak has provided. This should be a building block that we use to make all diplomatic situations transparent, as we are not ruled by the govenment, but goverened.
So if someone gives me a list of credit card numbers that they stole from a bank, and I make a website listing all the credit card numbers, I would not get in trouble? After all freedom of the press?
Wikileaks needs to stick to what it is supposed to do. Expose cover-ups. This information is not exposing cover-ups. It is just being released to piss the US off. If they had evidence of war crimes, that the US was refusing to prosecute, that would be one thing. But they have nothing. Nothing but releasing secret documents purely because they are secret documents and will piss the US off.
As for Watergate, that was a crime, that was a cover-up that was exposed. Not even close here. Even the video that they released with the helicopter shooting the civilians in Iraq is not relevant. Because they thought they were shooting combatants. Listen to the video, no where did they think they were shooting at civilians. Now it would have be worthy of being released if they said on the video that they were shooting civilians, and that they knew, but they did not. Making mistakes and accidentally killing civilians is not a war crime. Targeting them is a war crime, and that was not the case here.
The assumption here is that every single document posted by WikiLeaks is genuine i.e. that the information is correct. Have we all forgotten the old adage 'Don't believe everything you read'? In the internet age, the adage should be 'Don't believe almost everything you read'.
Phil...A rational human being would definitely agree with you...However, today's lazy Americans rather have someone do the thinking for them and prefer to believe rhetoric than work thru the bull to find the truth...It's a sign of the times....A ZERO accountability culture who's being led by individuals posting inane views on the Internet...
yeah ctdad americans are fat stupid and lazy except for you and everyone that agrees with you of course...arent we ignorant infidels so lucky to have the superior elite few like you to enlighten us from our stupidity
Julian Assange is nothing but a self righteous A** who needs to be dealt with, he is not promoting fredom of informatrion, nor is he protecting anyone all he is doing is putting in harms way others who he could care little about, he wanted to become famous and this was the easiest way for him to do it
Would Americans today even care about Watergate? Or have we become frightened mice who want to stay in our burrows and let someone else do our thinking for us? Today, all a government official has to do is to utter the magic word "terrorism" and everyone stops asking questions. Pathetic.
cubsfan....This is how you deal with someone like Julian Assange, who is a self-annointed guardian of humankind....
Create a website and name it something like WikiWhat?...Do some photoshop work and put Julian Assange in a compromising position with some farm animals and publish it for the world to see....I guarantee you will see widespread acceptance of it's claimed authenticity mainly because, as with Wikileaks, people will believe whatever they read or see on the Internet without question.
You can rant all you want about Wikileaks/Julian, but they're just being an opportunist capitalist.
Governments are the real Terrorists.
Perhaps if the gutless media actually did their jobs, we wouldn't have this problem.
Perhaps, if the stupid American public hadn't bought hook line and sinker everything Ronald Reagan peddled, the mammoth mostly conservative megacorporations that OWN the American news media wouldn't have been able to steadily disassemble over the past 30 years what was once the finest press system in the world, closing foreign bureaus and laying off thousands upon thousands of highly experienced journalists. Many of us recall how knee jerk anti-media the American response was to the Watergate hearings that exposed the putrid digestive tract of many of the very same people, and certainly the same corporations and MIC contractors, still pulling levers of power ... and that was televised for the whole world to watch! Who do you think owns the networks, cable and internet companies? Only a very tiny fraction of newspapers are still family owned and out of corporate hands. We are 40 years past when the average Joe or Jane could even own a radio station.
@xrx9288
Unless you're talking about North Korea or Iran's governments, I don't see the connection.
There is no doubt in my mind that Assange will be assasinated by some individual or group. He is pissing off too many people.
Putin.
Get real people, this would have happened sooner or later. Assange is just the first of many. No computer is safe.
Unfortunately you are right. In the Internet era only tangible documents that have not been committed to digital form are truly safe from hackers like Assange.
Actually, he was a hacker over 20 years ago, not today, and documents leaked by Wikileaks come from insiders and whistleblowers. There is a PFC in the brig who was the one that submitted the documents to Wikileaks.
Wikileaks didn't "steal" anything.
GFOLEY
It is not that Wikileaks "stole" anything, they posted stolen documents. the fact that the PFC is in the brig SHOULD cast a light that this is not good.
For people to say that the government SHOULD be transparent, obviously did not have any family members on Normandy, or perhaps in the Pacific.
Julian is a little man looking for fame.
Broadcasting, or otherwise exposing future troop movements is one thing. Posting documents that expose diplomats as gossiping Gertrudes, is another thing entirely. It also sheds light on how our diplomats behave while conducting themselves on our behalf.
Not to mention shedding light on activities of people we ally with; activities that were obviously public knowledge in other countries, such as Karzai intervening multiple times on the behalf of drug lords. It also exposes the Afghan practice of streeting terrorists they had agreed to prosecute.
None of those things risk ANY American lives, like would the leaking of future troop movements, like you had compared the leaking of this set of documents to.
At least one other news agency that had these documents, allowed the government to give its opinion on the release beforehand.
Of course there are some things our government does that should be classified. But chatter of diplomats that paints them in an unflattering light for their behavior? Not exactly top secret information. Rather, it's just embarrassing.
I wonder why no reporter is questioning Hilary Clinton as to why she was seeking to obtain such personal information about diplomats? If such types of actions are normal to obtain, then why would Clinton have to personally sign off on askin for this information. What was she going to use the information for? Obviously, Assange and his organization ought to be strung up from the highest tree- There actions are horrific. Lets see some real outrage from the President himself on this issue.
What intrigues me is the outrage thrown at Wikileaks for exposing documents that put the US in a bad light, but no real outrage at those who the documents expose as arrogant and irresponsible in the actions they take while out in the world representing US, the people of America. They are out there doing these things IN OUR NAME and yet we want to kill the messenger for exposing it.
And yes, why no outrage at what these people are doing in our name? Why would she legitimately need DNA samples, emails, cell numbers, etc and so on?
We keep saying we want transparency in government. We can't really be pissed off when we get what we ask for, right?
Nearly half of the documents were declassified.
A better source of info all along has been:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
To be fair to Clinton, she could have been using a figure of speech. I'd give my staff a pay-raise if the managed to find out THAT much about some certain people. At the same time, I'd also be content if they didn't find those things out. Why would I need somebody else's DNA anyway?
Sadly, I know Iran will be very happy to use these. This is pretty bad timing, Assange.
I haven't seen the documents, so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
what I want to know is ~ who is paying for the "hunting trips" to Morocco??
ding, ding, ding. Great question.
Everything new is old: follow the money.
Very little of import happens anywhere within the upper echelons of power - anywhere in the world - that isn't rooted in riches.
Every critical thinking American ought go rent (Netflix) the 1964 classic, "Seven Day in May." Or, god forbid, read the book.
I aplaud Wikileaks. Make governments accountable for what they do. Governments should not be secret!
Riiiiight sensitive diplomacy should just be out int he open for all the idiots to see. I mean Iran, terrorists and NK have every right to know what's going on behind closed doors.
If that were the case no one would communicate and nothing would get done. Think for once.
Have you actually read what was leaked? Do you believe all of it was "sensitive diplomacy"? Or just embarrassing to certain powerful people?
Only a very small percentage of this should have been secret to begin with. But we're too scared of bogeymen to be logical these days. The result is going to be a country that we don't recognize as the "land of the free" any more - not because it was taken from us, but because we gave it away out of fear.
Revolution....You would put a blind trust in a website...???....Sounds extremely short sighted and frankly lazy to believe what you read before further investigating it's validity
Mix should take his own advice, and think for himself. Stop being a sheep. You should want to know what is going on, and not just be lead around by the nose.
ctdad: I never said "You would put a blind trust in a website".
Revolutiion...It appears to me that you are attempting to give credit to a website that has posted information that has not been authenticated...
ctdad if the info is false or haven't been authenticated, why all the fuzz, don't you think?
romilio....What is it about Wikileaks that has provided them immediate credibility on the information they post on their website....
People are blindly accepting this information as fact and that's very concerning...
ctdad the government is giving this information legitimacy by their outrage and since it is THEIR documents i guess they know or not if it is fact or are you implying this is all an zionist led satanic american plot to take over the world
I firmly believe that both the man who runs wiki-leaks and the idiot who downloaded and fed him all this classified information should be arrested, tried and shot as traitors, especially if any of this information they've published results in the death of a single American or ally. There are lines that should NEVER be crossed when disclosing information and those lines were definitely violated by these people. I think the man who runs wiki-leaks is offering aid and comfort not just to America's enemies, but to those of several European, Asian and Middle Eastern countries as well - he's a self-aggrandizing jerk who doesn't give a flip about who he endangers as long as he gets publicity and he's put a bulls-eye on himself that some international security forces (not mentioning anyone specifically) are going to put a bullet through.
How should those in the Government be dealt with, the ones that have lied and killed thousands, including their own?
Pat = Sheep! Baaaaa!
Assange is not American, so it doesn't make a lot of sense to suggest that he be tried for treason. It's rather interesting to me to see the right wing shrieking about this fellow's work when they were so silent about the outing of Valerie Plame, an actual, in-service CIA Operative whose identity was leaked by the Vice President of the United States of America.
THAT was an act of treason. Assange's actions may violate numerous laws, and if so then let the chips fall where they may, but let's at least have the decency to make SOME effort to be anything other than rank hypocrites.
And I firmly believe that your knuckles drag the ground when you walk.
We desperately need a government we can trust.
I'll take my chances with terrorists in exchange for a government I can trust any day.
Our government needs to have the back of all citizens. Not just a chosen few.
This isn't a hard choice at all.
Terrorists that would probably leave you for dead after a guerrilla strike?
The founder of WikiLeaks is a terrorist. He didn't blow anything up, but his actions will inevitably cause loss-of-life, and have put the citizens and leaders of nations on high alert. As an American I am a firm believer in freedom of information, speech, the press, etc. We fought pretty hard for our first-amendment rights. But at the end of the day, there should be consequences when your so-called "free speech" becomes an aid to killing and a hindrance to human rights.
I'm sure the government appreciates Mr. Engel's propaganda piece but the blame needs to rest on their shoulders far more than on WikiLeaks'.
Millions of people had access to these so-called secrets. The guy who stole them is just a Pfc (Private First Class), for heaven's sake! If millions had access, including the lowest ranks in the military, then it's naive to believe the information wasn't already well-known among our enemies. The kid was routinely left alone with access to this whole supposedly-secured network, and a thumbdrive in his pocket. I'm fully for prosecuting Pfc. Manning, but he did us a favor, people. It's better to have this embarrassing junk released now than have our invasion plans for Iran (or whatever) leaked to our enemies later.
I wish my government would grow up and actually try running the country like adults instead of just being a "spin machine" trying to manipulate opinion. A much better response would be an apology and resignation from the officer responsible for security of these files, followed up by a congressional investigation of how US security procedures got so laughably bad in the first place.
But no, the new American way is to blame everyone but ourselves. It disgusts me. The US used to stand for something.
I agree. The current government is about money and status. The public is only thought about when it is election time. The US government is so far from what the founding fathers wanted, and is infact, more like the one they escaped from. To bad there is no where to run now.
Our culture is based on capitalism. So why should it be such a sock to us that WikiLeaks is just being an opportunistic capitalist. One cannot rationalize this by saying that all the other capitalist that have taken advantage of the populace were more ethical in their endeavors. Need you be reminded of how we got into our current fiscal and housing situation? Think!
@Phil Morris-1574375
First off your wrong. Of course you should never believe everything you read, but if this information was falsified, would there really be such a huge scrabble and fight from the governments around the world? If the data was wrong the officials would come into no harm and it could simply be dismissed through the media. If you watch the segment with Hillary, she says that their validity is not claimed by the states (they don't deny or accept that the US had part of the writing of these documents), and that drastic actions will be taken. To say we may or may not have written these is already admitting that the documents are true to their word. The way that the world governments tensed up, and threw a fit is evidence enough of the documents truth.
Corporate media at it's finest.
Just admit that you shills are afraid for your jobs. The world doesn't need "journalists" that exist to do nothing more than issue press releases for the government.
Bingo.
Thank you! At least one person with a brain. Only free press will protect a democracy and keep an eye on government. Since we don't have free press anymore every alternative is good. Government should not have anything to hide. Too bad Wikileaks didn't have access to the inner workings of Wallstreet before their greed led us into the crash. Wish someone from Goldman Sachs would leak to Wikileaks.
From the article in Forbes with the interview of Assange, they actually DO have documents on many of the financial players involved and those will be coming to light soon, as well. I believe he mentioned those would start coming out early next year.
Wikileaks is simply a website acting as an outlet for information people send them. If you are upset with the information then demand the US Dept. of Justice force the Jewish Lobbying Organization, AIPAC to register it's members as agents operating for the foreign nation of Israel inside America.
Israeli Spys have the access to the information that is being leaked to Wikileaks and other media outlets thru their members in the US Pentagon and the direct connection they have with the US State Dept. Database.
Israeli Spys have the history of stealing America's secrets and then releasing cherry picked portions to outlets to further their Zionist Nationalist agenda.
Israeli Spys have the agenda of furthering the focus on Iran's civilian nuclear reactor project. Although a majority of cables are between Israel and the US State Dept. and US Pentagon, not a single one was sent to Wikileaks, NONE. The few regarding Iran were all sent, the leaked information was definitely cherry picked.
History, Access and Agenda all point to Israeli Spys are the ones giving Wikileaks much of their information and documents.
Can you offer any proof of your allegations?
Certainly point your browser to learn about the Israeli Spy Pollard and what he went after, obtained and SOLD. THEN point your browser to learn about the theft of the F-35 Stealth fighter entire database, some 1.5 terrabytes worth of top secret American national security secrets, the Israeli Spy's digital evidence and digital fingerprints. THEN point your browser to learn about the US Dept. of Justice decision on the former Jewish Lobbying Organization to force them to register their members as Israeli Spys operating in America under the Registration of Foreign Agents Act.
A great many of the US State Dept. and Pentagon cables are between Israel, Israel's military officials and the Pentagon. The Wikileaks documents would contain a high percentage of the total regarding Israel. The Wikileaks documents contain NO CABLES about Israel, NO DISCUSSIONS WITH OR BY ISRAEL. The Israeli Spys keep that information out of what was sent. What was sent was cherry picked to extend the Zionist war drumming agenda, offhand remarks about Arabic despots complaining about Iran?
Iran hasn't attacked any of them and Iran lacks the Uranium deposits to make a Uranium based nuclear weapon. Russia's deal with it's Russian reactor is for Russia to take the spent fuel rods, therefore Iran lacks any Plutonium to make a Plutonium based nuclear weapon. Problem solved, except the Zionists running Israel's government wants America to destroy Iran anyway just as they wanted Saddam removed from Iraq under the false Israeli claims that Iraq had nuclear weapons. Removing Saddam destabilized the entire Middle East and handed Iraq to Iran.
History, Access and AGENDA all point to Israeli Spys are the ones giving Wikileaks much of their information and documents.
Readers around the world following the latest Wikileaks releases and information should be asking if this information were 'cherry picked' from a huge stack or was it 'deliberately selected and sent to Wikileaks' as part of a less overt nefarious agenda by a organization using the leaks specifically to sway world opinion to their nefarious point of view.
In my mind the media who happily publish these documents are just as guilty as Assange. They keep saying this is compromising our security- yet they repeat everything on the news?!! Also why isn't the government doing anything? An entire nation held hostage by one man on a computer? The US is really that powerless?
The Truth will destroy America, this country has to reap what it has sown. No way around it. I need to get my money straight and leave this racist nation because it's days r numbered. No country is above defeat. It has happened to everyone except us, we are next. Thanks to all those evil racist that live in this country protected.
How very telling. Interpol is fully aware of the massive tidal wave of Heroin flowing out of Afghanistan and the allegations that Hamid Karzai's brother is 'THE' major exporter of all of that Heroin resulting in a wave of crime, murder and violence around the world. YET, Interpol turns a blind eye and a deaf ear to that small item and instead charges Wikileaks founder with a sex crime in Sweden, yes that must be a high priority to lock up the Wikileaks founder.
The Israeli Spys and others supplying the documents to Wikileaks will simply find other outlet's in hopes those are published and reach news media around the world regardless if Wikileaks goes down or not.
@Dee-2619652
And those of us that work hard every day and are polite to everyone we meet will gladly say goodbye to you and yours. We dont need you. The same laws that protect the ones you hate also protect you. Good luck getting that level of protection anywhere else. I have no time for racists, bigots or haters. And I especially don't want to be standing next to someone like you if and when a fight comes to our shores. You are the type that would sell out your family for the safety of another nation. Good luck to you, ma'am.
Interpol is a International Police Organization. They have jurisdiction and a great deal of authority to help apprehend and work with many nations around the world to arrest and apprehend a fugitive. For those that wish to learn more about the clout and very wide range of the International Police Organization refer to their website.
http://www.interpol.int/public/icpo/default.asp
INTERPOL is the world’s largest international police organization, with 188 member countries. Created in 1923, it facilitates cross-border police co-operation, and supports and assists all organizations, authorities and services whose mission is to prevent or combat international crime.
International law enforcement authorities are on the hunt for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after Interpol issued a warrant for his detainment on sex crimes.
The warrant was issued just days after WikiLeaks disclosed classified U.S. diplomatic documents to several major newspapers around the world, including The New York Times, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, and The Guardian.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=228500161&subSection=News
Interpol can and does issue warrants on suspects, works with well over 100 nations around the world to apprehend and bring those suspects and fugitives to justice.
I hope they rot in hell for exposing those documents - they have placed America in great danger and I am glad they are have been accused as a terrorist act against America - the media and all its idiots do not not understand how they place America in great danger due to the news and information they publish. They don't care about the consequences rather just having the latest news to beat other media networks - we need to start penalizing this -
Leak is a leak, done is done.
It can now be sold to highest bidder in the underground market in Iran etc.
OR posted online for entertainment and let everyone know the dirty details.
And it lets pentagon know that there is leak problem, and it's up to them to fix it.
WikiLeaks - A tool for intelligent and understandable people who were and are decieved on daily basis by Government Media Propogandas and exposed for their daily crimes and terror against their own people and out in the world. We shoudl be thankful to WIKILEAKS.
I am deeply torn on this issue. Here is why:
First. I believe that transparency is very important in any governmental body. The citizens have the right to know the failures and successes of their government, otherwise how will they know who to vote for, or what needs to be fixed. A part of me is happy that someone is providing us with transparency.
However, why do we need to know where top officials hunt and who they hunt with? Why do we need to know who the inner circle of the UAE's military and intelligence command are? This information is something that the average person could care less about, but that the average hit man cares deeply about.
Wikileaks deserve accolade beyond accolades. Only true criminals or terrorists will afraid of Wikileads. Who caused more damages to America for years to come? not Osama bin Laden. not Saddam Hussein.
Who are the real criminals or terrorists?
Disgusting