They have some sort of screening process to make sure the release of the documents wouldn’t directly endanger someones life. The screening is executed by a few journalists on a volunteer basis, and given the number of documents, its not particularily surprising that its taken several months.
Good point. I do recall this process being mentioned when the war documents were released.
Previous releases have done little to topple governments or cause much trouble at all. The government screams about the damage every release will cause. Then nothing.
Governments love their secrecy, too damn much, I believe. The governments lie to their people over and over ,then want us to vote for them because we can trust them and believe what they say. Let the truth out.
I wish someone would release all the double dealing and lying Kisslnger was involved in.
Is he right? I’m not sure.
For me it’ll depend entirely on what gets released.
Interesting link:
I keep picturing emails like
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According to that wlcentral link in my previous post, One cable dates back to 1966. For some reason that one really piques my curiosity, but it’ll likely be inconsequential.
Based on wikileaks past performance, I doubt much will come of this. As before, it’ll probably be a bunch of fairly low level stuff that has little if any surprises in it. Most likely the biggest secret that gets exposed is that the ambassador to XYZ once said something less than flattering about XYZ. It’s hard for me to call revealing that sort of crap to be heroic, but it’s also hard to call it villainous. It’s just a kinda dick move of little concern to anyone not directly involved. Assange wants to be the NYT releasing the Pentagon Papers, but so far he’s hasn’t even managed to be as influential and relevant as the National Enquirer reporting on a politicians affair.
Manning should get the death penalty.
Has the connection to Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell been reported much?
I was at the gym today and switched the audio to MSNBC as soon as I saw his picture but I didn’t hear anything about his motives.
If that is his proven motive, fine. Does this constitute as treason though?
Like Scooter and his boss did?
Or that democrat who stuffed the classified documents in his pants at the national archives?
They would have to be analogous situations for this statement to make sense.
Agreed, Assange would have to be as callous and personally vindictive as the perpetrators of the Valerie Plame business.
Also by definition he isn’t as treasonous as they are, even if he were outing CIA operatives in the field.
Wikiiedia cofounder addresses Wikileaks:
…cite for his connection to wikileaks?
Oh boy, did I screw that up. His a cofounder of Wikipedia, not Wikileaks. I just thought his comments might be interesting. I did not intend to connect him to Wikileaks.
The thread was about Wikileaks, I had repeatedly typed Wikileaks, so when I meant to type Wikipedia my fingers typed Wikileaks. :smack:
I corrected the typo in the previous two posts.