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Worse spill: Gulf of Mexico vs. Afghan war reports
« on: July 26, 2010, 09:37:34 PM »
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100726/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_afghanistan_wikileaks

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Leaks create fresh doubt about Afghan war, secrets

  By ROBERT BURNS, Associated Press Writer Robert Burns, Associated Press Writer   – 8 mins ago

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The torrent of more than 91,000 secret documents, one of the largest unauthorized disclosures in military history, sent the Obama administration scrambling to assess and repair any damage to the war effort, either abroad or in the U.S. The material could reinforce the view put forth by the war's opponents in Congress that one of the nation's longest conflicts is hopelessly stalemated.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said the release of documents was just the beginning. He told reporters in London that some 15,000 more files on Afghanistan were still being vetted by his organization.

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Associated Press writers Kimberly Dozier, Anne Flaherty and Andrew Taylor in Washington, Raphael Satter in London, and Kirsten Grieshaber in Berlin contributed to this report.

See link for the rest of the article.

I wonder which leak will cost more lives.  =|
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Re: Worse spill: Gulf of Mexico vs. Afghan war reports
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2010, 10:09:27 PM »
The leakers should be charged with Treason...but that won't happen with the spineless administration we have.
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Re: Worse spill: Gulf of Mexico vs. Afghan war reports
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2010, 10:33:50 PM »
Reporters don't give a *expletive deleted*it about our men and women in harms way. They'll sell their soul to the devil just to get a "story" in print. Simply amazing.

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Re: Worse spill: Gulf of Mexico vs. Afghan war reports
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2010, 10:48:52 PM »
Gee, maybe somebody should get a warrant and seize the 15,000 pages of documents before they're made public. I think there's probably a law somewhere that would provide cause for a warrant.

Nah.

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Re: Worse spill: Gulf of Mexico vs. Afghan war reports
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2010, 10:49:27 PM »
The leakers should be charged with Treasonget a bullet in the ear   and i'd volunteer for the job..but that won't happen with the spineless administration we have.
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Re: Worse spill: Gulf of Mexico vs. Afghan war reports
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2010, 10:59:16 PM »
Gee, maybe somebody should get a warrant and seize the 15,000 pages of documents before they're made public. I think there's probably a law somewhere that would provide cause for a warrant.

Nah.
Pretty sure the Wikileaks people are out of the country. And some, IIRC, are foreign nationals.

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Re: Worse spill: Gulf of Mexico vs. Afghan war reports
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2010, 11:23:39 PM »
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Pretty sure the Wikileaks people are out of the country. And some, IIRC, are foreign nationals.

That's even better, since their acts fall under the charter of the CIA. Surely the spooks must have a couple of spare car bombs on hand.

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Re: Worse spill: Gulf of Mexico vs. Afghan war reports
« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2010, 11:28:29 PM »
I wouldn't mind Wikileaks so much if it posted the classified data of really nasty regimes, too.  Say, Iranian commo about their nuke program or suchlike.

Personally, as POTUS I'd send this guy to the next plane of existence.
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Re: Worse spill: Gulf of Mexico vs. Afghan war reports
« Reply #8 on: July 27, 2010, 02:20:11 AM »
I wouldn't mind Wikileaks so much if it posted the classified data of really nasty regimes, too.  Say, Iranian commo about their nuke program or suchlike.

Same reason PETA doesn't take their grief against leather to biker rallies.  Just as contemptible
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Re: Worse spill: Gulf of Mexico vs. Afghan war reports
« Reply #9 on: July 27, 2010, 02:39:09 AM »
Same reason PETA doesn't take their grief against leather to biker rallies.  Just as contemptible

You realize that Wikileaks does post classified IRanian documents, right?
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Re: Worse spill: Gulf of Mexico vs. Afghan war reports
« Reply #10 on: July 27, 2010, 08:28:29 AM »
You realize that Wikileaks does post classified IRanian documents, right?

If by post classified Iranian documents you mean recycle Congressional Research Service press releases, you'd be right.

Meh, these guys are as worthless as all the Usual Suspects: Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, etc.  It would be nice to see one of htese sorts of organizations actually live up to their charter.  Just to mix it up a little.
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Re: Worse spill: Gulf of Mexico vs. Afghan war reports
« Reply #11 on: July 27, 2010, 08:38:32 AM »
Here is Wikleaks' North Korea page:
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:North_Korea

Saudi Arabia:
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:Saudi_Arabia

Venezuela:
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:Venezuela

Cuba:
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:Cuba

OK, Wikileaks is officially useless as teats on a boar hog and does nothing useful that opencrs.com or fas.com doesn't do better and with less moral preening.
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Re: Worse spill: Gulf of Mexico vs. Afghan war reports
« Reply #12 on: July 27, 2010, 01:42:15 PM »
Thanks roo_ster

Was going to share my own experience of initial excitement and disappointment devolving to disgust with the site from some years back.  Glad to see your posts have saved me the trouble.
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Re: Worse spill: Gulf of Mexico vs. Afghan war reports
« Reply #13 on: July 27, 2010, 01:49:03 PM »
I think the guy at Cryptome has an axe to grind with the Wikileaks guys.
Snippets from their mailing list:
http://cryptome.org/0002/wikileaks-bias.htm
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Re: Worse spill: Gulf of Mexico vs. Afghan war reports
« Reply #14 on: July 27, 2010, 01:52:31 PM »
If by post classified Iranian documents you mean recycle Congressional Research Service press releases, you'd be right.



No, I mean These[/ur], for example. Or [url=http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Iranian_Telecommunications_Corporation_internal_documents,_Jun_2009]these or these.
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Re: Worse spill: Gulf of Mexico vs. Afghan war reports
« Reply #15 on: July 27, 2010, 04:53:11 PM »
MB:

I saw those, but am not particularly impressed.
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Re: Worse spill: Gulf of Mexico vs. Afghan war reports
« Reply #16 on: July 27, 2010, 06:17:22 PM »
Isn't Wikileaks just the outhouse of this Administration?
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