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Many of them are pretty uninteresting, but the one about the Yemen drone strikes is definitely newsworthy. Also keep in mind the "collateral murder" video from earlier this year.
Many of them are pretty uninteresting, but the one about the Yemen drone strikes is definitely newsworthy. Also keep in mind the "collateral murder" video from earlier this year.
Last edited by Dan74; 5th December 2010 at 08:16 PM.
"The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh"
Where were these "patriots" calling for justice when Cheney outed Plame?
Exclusive: Cheney’s admissions to the CIA leak prosecutor and FBI | Murray WaasVice President Dick Cheney, according to a still-highly confidential FBI report, admitted to federal investigators that he rewrote talking points for the press in July 2003 that made it much more likely that the role of then-covert CIA-officer Valerie Plame in sending her husband on a CIA-sponsored mission to Africa would come to light.
Cheney conceded during his interview with federal investigators that in drawing attention to Plame’s role in arranging her husband’s Africa trip reporters might also unmask her role as CIA officer.
Cheney denied to the investigators, however, that he had done anything on purpose that would lead to the outing of Plame as a covert CIA operative. But the investigators came away from their interview with Cheney believing that he had not given them a plausible explanation as to how he could focus attention on Plame’s role in arranging her husband’s trip without her CIA status also possibly publicly exposed. At the time, Plame was a covert CIA officer involved in preventing Iran from obtaining weapons of mass destruction, and Cheney’s office played a central role in exposing her and nullifying much of her work.
The Forum Rules
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
[John F. Kennedy]
The principal value of debate lies in the development of logical thought processes, and the ability to articulate your positions publicly.
[Senator Dick Clark of Iowa]
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.
[Terry Pratchett]
Or maybe not...
AP: Obama should resign if approved UN spying: WikiLeaks founder
President Barack Obama should resign if it can be shown that he approved spying by US diplomatic figures on UN officials, the founder of WikiLeaks said in an interview published Sunday.
"The whole chain of command who was aware of this order, and approved it, must resign if the US is to be seen to be a credible nation that obeys the rule of law. The order is so serious it may well have been put to the president for approval," Julian Assange told Spanish daily El Pais.
"Obama must answer what he knew about this illegal order and when. If he refuses to answer or there is evidence he approved of these actions, he must resign," he added during an Internet chat interview published online.
Perhaps this will interfere with any action against Assange:
"WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has circulated across the internet an encrypted “poison pill” cache of uncensored documents suspected to include files on BP and Guantanamo Bay.
One of the files identified this weekend by The (London) Sunday Times — called the “insurance” file -- has been downloaded from the WikiLeaks website by tens of thousands of supporters, from America to Australia.
Assange warns that any government that tries to curtail his activities risks triggering a new deluge of state and commercial secrets."
WikiLeaks founder Assange has encrypted Guantanamo documents, will release them if arrested - NYPOST.com
This could escalate into something serious.
I upped my income, up yours.
A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."
-- Stephen Crane
Seems they do good work doesn't it? And their top 10 releases.
Wikileaks' 10 greatest stories - Telegraph
If the terrain and the map do not agree, follow the terrain.
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become a new race.
Now that Assange has been arrested I think it's reasonable to conclude that had Bin Ladin simply been an embarrassment to the U.S. government instead of providing the war hawks with an excuse to enrich the military/industrial complex, he'd have been in custody long ago.
Arrested WikiLeaks chief denied bail in U.K. - U.S. news - WikiLeaks in Security - msnbc.com
The Forum Rules
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
[John F. Kennedy]
The principal value of debate lies in the development of logical thought processes, and the ability to articulate your positions publicly.
[Senator Dick Clark of Iowa]
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.
[Terry Pratchett]
Yes, I fear Assange has brought this on himself.
In an interview in Spiegel a couple of weeks ago, sometime Obama adviser Bruce Riedel allowed as how it wasn't impossible that they know exactly where OBL is. (In Waziristan, of course, in a nice comfy house.)
Anyway, even if OBL skids on a banana peel tomorrow, the war hawks will find all the pretexts they need. As long as the media can get people whipped up for war ----- no problem.
"I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything."
-- Viscount Melbourne
Hopefully he won't go to GITMO.
"The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh"
It'll be a up in the air court case at best, I can't imagine the authoritarians in power wanting to risk the embarrassment of losing in court.
The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
-- Bertrand Russell
I've noted this before, but consider the story:
Doesn't the timing behind this arrest seem a little too convenient -- for the US government, I mean?Wikileaks founder Julian Assange refused bail
The founder of whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has been refused bail by a court in London but vowed to fight extradition to Sweden.
Mr Assange denies sexually assaulting two women in Sweden.
BBC News - Wikileaks founder Julian Assange refused bail
Grandpa h.
Post by post, building his arguments by smashing a couple of theirs -- for America.
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