Political Theory

Re: Massive top-secret U.S. Government internet dump?

Naevius — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:37:55 GMT

Oooohoohoo, my curiosity is piqued. I wonder what these files contain? I hope they get leaked. You know if a state doesn't want the populace to know something it's got to be either important, damning, or both.

Re: Massive top-secret U.S. Government internet dump?

Skyler Collins — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:49:13 GMT

I like how they use "national security" to mean "government job security".

Re: Massive top-secret U.S. Government internet dump?

Benjamin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:19:31 GMT

I think it would be likely to show that.

There's now an antiwar.com interview about it featuring Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg:

http://antiwar.com/radio/2010/06/09/daniel-ellsberg-8/

Re: Massive top-secret U.S. Government internet dump?

Sieben — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:17:54 GMT

Pleaaase let it show that the US military doesn't give a damn about protecting americans or saving lives, and only exists to transfer taxpayer money to the military industrial complex... I keep telling people but they don't believe me. G.I. Joe was such great propoganda :(

Massive top-secret U.S. Government internet dump?

Benjamin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:11:22 GMT

from "The Daily Beast"

by Julian Assange

Anxious that Wikileaks may be on the verge of publishing a batch of secret State Department cables, investigators are desperately searching for founder Julian Assange. Philip Shenon reports. Plus, Daniel Ellsberg tells The Daily Beast: "Assange is in Some Danger."

(This story has been updated to reflect new developments on Assange's whereabouts, including the cancelation of a scheduled appearance in Las Vegas.)

Pentagon investigators are trying to determine the whereabouts of the Australian-born founder of the secretive website Wikileaks for fear that he may be about to publish a huge cache of classified State Department cables that, if made public, could do serious damage to national security, government officials tell The Daily Beast.

The officials acknowledge that even if they found the website founder, Julian Assange, it is not clear what they could do to block publication of the cables on Wikileaks, which is nominally based on a server in Sweden and bills itself as a champion of whistleblowers.

“We’d like to know where he is; we’d like his cooperation in this,” one U.S. official said of Assange.

American officials said Pentagon investigators are convinced that Assange is in possession of at least some classified State Department cables leaked by a 22-year-old Army intelligence specialist, Bradley Manning of Potomac, Maryland, who is now in custody in Kuwait.

And given the contents of the cables, the feds have good reason to be concerned....

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-06-10/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-hunted-by-pentagon-over-massive-leak/full/%20http:/wikileaks.org/?obref=obinsite

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If there's any truth to this article, any guesses on what we might learn if volumes of unclassified State Department cables were released?

My guess; that the U.S. government at its highest levels is run by pit-demons from the nether regions of Hades.